بَعِير

baEiyrN Eyr bEyr , (S, Msb, K, &c.,) sometimes pronounced baEiyrN , (K,) which latter is of the dial. of BenooTemeem, but the former is the more chaste, (TA,) A camel, male or female; (S, Msb, K;) as applied to a camel, like A_inosaAnN applied to a human being; (S, Msb;) whereas jamalN is applied only to a male camel, and naAqapN to a she-camel; bakorN and bakorapN are respectively terms like fatnFY and fataApN ; and qaluwSN is like the term jaAriyapN ; so say, among others, ISk and Az and IJ; and it is added in the Mutahffidh, that the terms jml and nAqp are applied only when the animal has entered the seventh year: (Msb:) but bEyr is more commonly applied to the male camel; (Msb, K;) and only to one that has entered its fifth year; (S, K;) or that has entered its ninth year: (K:) the pl. is A^aboEirapN [a pl. of pauc.] and buEoraAnN (S, Msb, K) and biEoraAnN (K) and buEurN (TA) and (pl. of A^aboEirapN TA) A^abaAEiru (S, Msb, K) and A^abaAEiyru (K.) If one say, A^aEoTuwniY baEiyrFA [ Give ye to me a bEyr ], the persons so addressed, accord. to EshSháfi'ee, are not to give a she-camel: (Msb:) but the following phrases are transmitted from the Arabs: SaraEatoniY baEiyriY My she-camel threw me down prostrate: (S, A:) and Halabotu baEiyriY I milked my camel: (A, Msb:) and $aribotu mino labani baEiyriY I drank of the milk of my camel: (S:) and kilaA h`*iyoni AlbiEorayoni naAqapN Each of these two camels is a she-camel. (A.) layolapu AlbaEiyri [ The night of the camel ], mentioned in a trad. of Jábir, means the night in which the Prophet purchased of him his camel. (TA.) ― -b2- Also An ass: (IKh, K:) so in the Kur xii. 72; but this signification is of rare occurrence: (IKh:) and anything that carries: (IKh, K:) so in the Hebrew language [ 165 (see Gen. xlv. 17)]. (TA.)