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اشكر

Root: شكر

Form: 4

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اشكرIV The people's camels had their udders full of milk (شَكِرَتْ إِبِلُهُمْ): or the people's camels became fat: or the people milked a camel or sheep or goat having her udder full of milk, i. e., such as is termed شَكِرَة: or the people milked camels or sheep or goats having their udders full of milk, one such after another: (O, TA: [but for اِحْتَلَبُوا شَكْرَةً شَكْرَةً in the O, and شُكْرَةً شُكْرَةً in the TA, I read احتلبوا شَكِرَةً شَكِرَةً, agreeably with what here next precedes:]) or the people, having alighted in a place where their camels found herbs, or leguminous plants, had abundance of milk from them.
2 اشكر said of an udder: see 8.
3 اشكرت الأَرْضُ The land produced fresh herbage after other herbage that had become dried up and dusty.
4 See also 1, near the end of the paragraph, in three places.
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