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احشّ

Root: حش

Form: 4

Full Definition

احشّIV It became in such a state that it might be cut and gathered, being dried up.
2 أَحَشَّتِ اليَدُ: see حَشَّت.
3 Also احشّت She had her child, or young one, dried up in her belly.

def.2 أَحَشَّ ٱللّٰهُ يَدَهُ [May God make his arm, or hand, to dry up; or to become unsound in its veins or ducts, and so rendered motionless;] is a form of imprecation used by the Arabs.
2 احشّ فُلَانًا He cut and collected حَشِيش [or dry herbage] with such a one; as though he helped him in doing so.
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