Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

خُصَيْرَى

Root: خصر

Full Definition

خُصَيْرَى , in some copies of the K خُصَيْرِىٌّ, [but the former is shown to be the right reading by a verse cited in the TA,] The curtailment of the superfluities of a thing; like اِخْتِصَارٌ.


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