عيدي īﻌd-ī A adj. (used substantively) A present which it is usual to make on the day of īﻌd, an Easter gift.

عام āﻌmm A (from عمّ Heb. To cover, to contain; and, hence, to be common) adj. 1. Com- mon, publick, general, plebeian. 2. The vulgar, the common people. خاص وعام ḵẖāss-o-āﻌmm, High and low, peculiar and popular.

عصب aﻌṣab A (from عصب Heb. To constringe, to compress) s. m. A tendon, a nerve, a ligament.

عناب uﻌnnāb A s. m. The jujub fruit.

عقيدت aﻌḳīdat A s. f. (from عقد) Faith, belief, a fundamental article of religion, tenet.

عشاق uﻌshshāḳ A s. plur. (of عاشق) Lovers.

عظميٰ uﻌz̤mạ̄ A adj. f. (of اعظم) Greatest.

عورت aﻌurat A (Heb. from Heb. To blind, to strip naked, or To be naked) s. f. 1. The pudenda of man or woman, that which is concealed through modesty. 2. (in Persian and Hindī) A woman, a wife.

عدس aﻌdas A s. f. Lentils.

عدول uﻌdūl A (from عدل) s. m. Declining, re- fusing, receding, deserting, returning. عدول حکمي کرنا ūﻌdul-ḥukm-ī-karnā, To disobey or- ders. عدول کرنا ūﻌdūl karnā, To deviate from, disobey, decline, refuse.