מְאוֹרָע, (אָרַע I) event, occasion. Sifré Deut. s. 1; Yalk. ib. 792 נקראו על שם המ׳ they were named from a certain event which occurred there. Gen. R. s. 37, end היו מוציאין שמן לשם המ׳ they passed (invented) names referring to events (instead of to genealogy). Y. Taan. I, 63ᵈ bot. לפי הזמן … לפי המ׳ according to the season, according to the needs of the occasion. Sabb. 24ᵃ ואומר מעין המ׳ and insert words (in the prayer) corresponding to the needs of the occasion; (Tosef. Ber. III, 10, sq. מוּרָע ed. Zuck., Var. מאורע); a. fr.