Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Root
س ي ر (s-y-r)

Derived from the active participle of سَارَ (sāra, to move, to travel, to leave).

Adjective edit

سَائِر (sāʔir) (feminine سَائِرَة (sāʔira), masculine plural سَائِرُون (sāʔirūn), feminine plural سَائِرَات (sāʔirāt))

  1. going, walking
  2. being of widespread appearance, bulk, the general mass, what is generally known
  3. the rest, the remainder (with following genitive)
    • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎ [Canon Medicinae], Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 279:
      غوشنة.
      الماهية: جنس من الكمأة والفطر يجفف، فينضم كغضروف، وشكله شكل كأس على كرش صغيرة متشنّجة يغسل به الثياب ويؤكل في الحموضات، وله لذة كلذة الغضاريف وأكثر.
      الطبع: ليس في برد سائر الكمأة.
      الخواص. ليس برديء الخلط كالكمأة، وكان في طبعه تًخمير أو قلويّة.
      Morel.
      What it is: A genus of truffles and mushrooms which are dried, and packed like cartilage, and its shape is the shape of a mug with a small shrivelled belly. One washes the garments with them and eats them with sour things, and it has a sensory delectability like the sensory delectability of cartilage and more.
      Its nature: It is not of the coldness known of truffles [or: coldness of the rest of the truffles, as the Arabic Middle Ages considered morels a subcase of truffles].
      Properties: It is not bad for the humour like truffles and of a brewing and basic nature.

Declension edit

Noun edit

سَائِر (sāʔirm (plural سَائِرُون (sāʔirūn), feminine سَائِرَة (sāʔira))

  1. walker, wanderer

Declension edit

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