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حَصُورٌ

Root: حصر

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حَصُورٌ One who has no sexual intercourse with women, though able to have it, abstaining from them from a motive of chastity, and for the sake of shunning worldly pleasures: or who is prevented from having it, by impotence: or who does not desire them, nor approach them: applied also to a horse, i. q. عِنِّينٌ. (IAar, TA in art. عجز.) In the Kur [iii. 34], applied to John the Baptist.
2 Castrated; having the penis and testicles amputated.
3 Very fearful or cautious; who abstains, or refrains, from a thing through fear.
4 See also حَصِرٌ, in four places.
5 Also A she-camel having a narrow orifice to the teat.


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