سعار

From the root س ع ر (s-ʕ-r). For the semantic extension, compare with German Heißhunger (literally, "hot-hunger").

• IPA^(key): /su.ʕaːr/

سُعَار • (suʕār) m (uncountable)

1. (of fire) fervency; rage

   Synonym: لَهِيب (lahīb)

   1. (of weather) torridness
      • a. 525, Aš-Šanfará, أقيموا بني أمي صدور مطيكم (first line)‎:

        وَلَيْلَةِ نَحْسٍ يَصْطَلِيَ القَوْسَ رَبُّهَا … وَأَقْطُعَهُ ٱللَّاتِي بِهَا يَتَنَبَّلُ
        دَعَسْتُ عَلَى غَطَشٍ وَبَغْشٍ وَصُحْبَتِي … سُعَارٌ وَإِرْزِيزٌ وَوَجْرٌ وَأَفْكُلُ

        wa-laylati naḥsin yaṣṭaliya l-qawsa rabbu-hā … wa-ʔaqṭuʕa-hū l-lātī bi-hā yatanabbalu
        daʕastu ʕalā ḡaṭašin wabaḡšin wa-ṣuḥbatī … suʕārun wa-ʔirzīzun wa-wajrun wa-ʔafkulu

        And the ill-fated night when the master warmed up his bow, … and his arrowtips, in the handling of which he had trow
        I trod upon darkness and rain-shower and my following … was the heat of night and snowy hail and timid gulps and shivering

2. rabies

   Synonym: كَلَب (kalab)

   1. (of a human or animal) frenziedness; madness; rabidity

      Synonym: جُنُون (junūn)

3. the twinge or pang of hunger or thirst