عياره aﻌiyāra A (from عير) adj. f. A sly, artful, or cunning woman.

عروس aﻌrūs A (from عرس) s. f. Bride. عروس الخطوط aﻌrūsu-l-ḵẖut̤ūt̤, A kind of handwriting. A. P. عروسانه aﻌrūs-āna, adj. or adv. Bride-like.

عملا aﻌmalā A adv. In act, in deed.

عنقريب aﻌn-ḳarīb A (عن prepos. and قريب Near) adv. Near, soon, shortly, nearly, almost.

عنا aﻌnā A s. f. Distress, trouble, labour.

عسس aﻌsas A s. m. The night-watch or guards.

عبراني iﻌbrānī A adj. Hebrew.

عفريت iﻌfrīt A (from عفر To roll in the dust) s. m. 1. Any thing frightful or horrible. 2. A giant, demon, spectre. (Plur. عفاريت).

عيب aﻌib A s. m. Fault, defect, a vice, blemish, infirmity, sin, disgrace, infamy. (Plur. عيوب). عيب پوش aﻌib-posh, Concealer of fault or de- fect. عيب پوشي aﻌib-posh-ī, s. f. Concealment of fault. عيب جو aﻌib-jo, adj. Censorious, ma- levolent, malicious, malignant; caviller, carper. عيب جوي aﻌib-jo-ī, s. f. Censoriousness, criti- cism, cavil. عيب چيني aﻌib-chīn-ī, s. f. Picking out faults, criticism. عيب گو aﻌib-go, One who finds fault, a slanderer. عيب گيري aﻌib- gīr-ī, s. f. Finding fault. عيب لگانا aﻌib-lagā- nā, To defame, asperse.

ع aﻌin called عين مـﮩمله or عين غير منقوطه the eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, does not occur in pure Persian, and has no analagous character in Sanskrit. It is one of the guttural letters, being formed in the lower part of the throat, by a compression of the fauces stronger and deeper than that used in the formation of hamza. Its sound has been compared to the voice of a calf calling its mother, or to that of a person who is making some painful exertion. It is one of the radical letters. In the denota- tion of numbers by the Arabic letters, it stands for 70. In Persian words introduced into Ara- bic it is substituted for ا as لعل for لال.