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احار

Root: حور

Form: 4

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احارIV [He returned a thing]. You say, طَحَنَتْ فَمَا أَحَارَتْ شَيْئًا She ground, and did not return (مَا رَدَّتْ) anything of the flour [app. for the loan of the hand-mill: see حُورٌ, below].
2 احار الغُصَّةَ He swallowed the thing sticking in his throat and choking him; [as though he returned it from its place: see 1: see also 4 in art. حير: and see an ex. voce إِحَارَةٌ.] And فُلَانٌ سَرِيعُ الإِحَارَةِ Such a one is quick in swallowing: [said to be] from what next follows.
3 احار, Verbal.Noun إِحَارَةٌ, He returned an answer, or a reply. You say, كَلَّمْتُهُ فَمَا أَحَارَ إِلَىَّ جَوَابًا I spoke to him, and he did not return to me an answer, or a reply. And in like manner, مَا أَحَارَ بِكَلِمَةِ [He did not return a word in answer, or in reply].

def.2 احارت She had a young one such as is called حُوَار.
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