Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَقْشَرُ

Root: قشر

Full Definition

أَقْشَرُ A thing having its peel, rind, bark, or the like, pared off.
2 One whose nose is excoriated by intense heat: or one intensely red, as though he were flayed, or as though his scarf-skin were peeled off.
3 Ground partly bare of herbage and partly producing herbage: and ground bare of herbage.
4 شَجَرَةٌ قَشْرَآءُ A tree peeled, or barked: or as though part of it were peeled, or barked, and part not.
5 حَيَّةٌ قَشْرآءُ A serpent casting off its slough, or having its slough cast off; syn. سَالِخٌ: or as though having part of its slough cast off, and part not.
6 عَامٌ أَقْشَرُ A severe year. See also قَاشِرَةٌ.


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