أَزْوَرُ

Inclining; (K;) crooked; wry; distorted: (A:) [feminine زَوْرَاءُ:] plural زُورٌ. (K.)

Having that kind of distortion in the زَوْر (or middle of the breast [&c.] TA) which is termed زَوَرٌ. (K, TA.)

A dog whose breast (جَوْشَنُ) صَدْرِهِ) is narrow, (K,) and the كَلْكَل [apparently meaning the part between the two collar-bones] projecting, as though his, or its, sides had been squeezed. (TA.)

A wry neck. (TA.)

[A beast] that looks from the outer angles of his eyes (K) by reason of his vehemence and sharpness of temper: (TA: [see also زَوْرٌ:]) or a camel (TA) that goes with an inclination towards one side, when his pace is vehement, though without any distortion in his chest. (K.) [See also زِوَرٌّ. Hence, apparently,] الزَّوْرَاءُ is a name of Certain camels (مَال) that belonged to Uheyhah (S, K) Ibn-El-Juláh ElAnsáree. (S.)

زَوْرَاءُ (tropical:) A bow: (S, A, K:) because of its curving. (S.)

(tropical:) A bent bow. (TA.)

(tropical:) A menáreh (مَنَارَة) deviating from the perpendicular. (A.)

(tropical:) A well (بِيءْر) deep: (S, K, * TA:) or not straightly dug. (TA.)

(tropical:) A land, (أَرْض, S, K,) and a desert, (مَفَازَة, A, or فَلَاة, TA,) far-extending, (S, A, K, TA,) and turning aside: (TA:) and أَزْوَرُ is applied [in the same sense] to a country, (TA,) and to an army. (S, TA.)

(tropical:) A saying, or phrase, (كَلِمَة,) bad, and crooked, or distorted. (A.)

-A2- Also زَوْرَاءُ [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates] (assumed tropical:) A [drinking-cup or bowl of the kind called] قَدَح. (S, K.)

And (assumed tropical:) A certain vessel (K) for drinking, (TA,) oblong, like the تَلْتَلَة. (TA.)

-A3- هُوَ أَزْوَرُ عَنْ مَقَامِ الذُّلِّ (A) (tropical:) He is most remote from the station, or state, of baseness, or ignominiousness. (TA.)