وعر1 وَعُرَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـْ (TA;) and وَعَرَ, aor. ـِ (Msb, K;) and وَعِرَ, (Lh, A, K,) aor. ـْ (K, TA) and يَعِرُ; (Lh, TA;) inf. n. وُعُورَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and وَعاَرَةٌ, (Msb, K,) of the first (Msb, TA) and second; (TA;) and وَعْرٌ, (Msb, K,) of the first (TA) and second; (Msb, TA;) and وُعُورٌ, (K,) of the second only; (TA;) and وَعَرٌ, (K,) of the third: (TA:) It (a place, A, K, and a mountain, S, Msb,) was, or became, rugged; (A, K;) as also ↓ توعّر: (S, * A, K:) or difficult. (Msb.) b2:  [Hence,] ↓ توعّر (tropical:)  It (an affair), and he, (a man,) was, or became difficult, or hard. (K, * TA.) You say, سَأَلْنَا فُلَانًا حَاجَةًفَتَوَ عَّرَ عَلَيْنَا (tropical:)  We asked of such a one a thing wanted, and he was hard, or difficult, to us. (Sgh, TA.) b3:  [Hence also,] وَعُرَ, inf. n. وَعَارَةٌ and وُعُوَرةٌ, (tropical:)  It (a thing) was, or became, little, or scanty. (K, TA.) 2 وعّرهُ, inf. n. تَوْعِيرٌ, He made it (a place, K, and a mountain, S,) rugged: (S, * K:) [or difficult.]4 اوعر بِهِ الطّرِيقُ The road became rugged to him: or brought him to a rugged land. (K, * TA.) b2:  اوعر He came, or lighted, upon a rugged place. (A, K.) b3:  See also 10. b4:  (tropical:)  His (a man's) property became little, or scanty. (K, * TA.) The man is thus likened to a rugged place without plants or herbage. (TA.) b5:  اوعرهُ (tropical:)  He made it (a thing, A, K,) little, or scanty. (S, A, K.) 5 تَوَعَّرَ see 1, in two places.10 استوعرهُ He found it, (S, Msb,) or deemed it, (K,) namely a place, (Msb,) or a road, (A, K,) or a thing, (S, Sgh,) rugged, (S, * K,) or difficult; (Msb;) as also ↓ اوعرهُ. (Sgh, K.) وَعْرٌ Rugged; contr. of سَهْلٌ: (A, K:) or difficult: (Msb:) applied to a place, (TA,) and a road, (A,) and a mountain: (S, Msb:) as also ↓ وَعِرٌ, (A, K, or, accord. to As, this latter is not allowable, (S,) and F's assertion, that this which is said in the S is nothing, being a negation of a negation without evidence, is a thing unheard of, MF,) and ↓ وَاعِرٌ and وَعِيرٌ and ↓ أَوْعَرُ: (K:) and plain with ruggedness: and a mountain rugged, and difficult of ascent: and a place inspiring fear, and desolate: (TA:) pl. أَوْعُرٌ, (K,) a pl. [of pauc.] of وَعْرٌ, (TA,) and وُعُورٌ, (A, K,) a pl. of mult. [of the same], (TA,) and وُعُورَةٌ, (A,) [of the same,] and أَوْعَارٌ, (A, K,) a pl. [of pauc.] of وَعِرٌ and وِعِيرٌ. (TA.) b2: Applied to a place where a thing is sought, (مَطْلَبٌ, S, and Msb) (assumed tropical:)  Difficult [of access]. (Msb.) b3:  Also, applied to a thing, (tropical:)  Little, or scanty. (A, TA.) And you say, فُلَانٌ وَعْرُ المَعْرُوفِ, meaning, (tropical:)  Such a one has little goodness, beneficence, or kindness. (S, A, K.) b4:  It is also an imitative sequent to قَلِيلٌ; (S, K;) [but in this case it is only a corroborative;] and to وَتْحٌ: (S:) and so is ↓ وَعِرٌ to مَعِرٌ, in the phrase شَعَرٌ مَعِرٌ وَعِرٌ, (K,) meaning, (assumed tropical:)  Little, scanty, hair. (TA.) وَعِرٌ: see وَعْرٌ, in two places.وَعِيرٌ: see وَعْرٌ.وَاعِرٌ: see وَعْرٌ.أَوْعَرُ: see وَعْرٌ.