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بُهْرٌ

Root: بهر

Full Definition

بُهْرٌ : see بَهْرٌ.
2 Also The state of being out of breath; interruption of the breath, by reason of fatigue, [or by bearing a heavy load, ] or by hard work, and by running: a panting, or breathing [shortly or] uninterruptedly.

def.2 Wide-spreading land; a wide tract of land; as also بُهْرَةٌ [q. v.].
2 A country, or district; or a city, or town; syn. بَلَدٌ: or the middle thereof.
3 The middle, and best part, (سِرّ, and خَيْر, for the former of which words we find شَرّ erroneously put in the copies of the K, TA,) of a valley; as also [q. v.].
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