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دَسَرَهُ

Root: دسر

Form: 1

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دَسَرَهُI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun دَسْرٌ, He, or it, pushed, thrust, drove, impelled, propelled, or repelled, him, or it. Ambergris is said to be شَىْءٌ يَدْسُرُهُ البَحْرُ A thing which the sea drives and casts upon the shore. And دَسَرَتِ السَّفِينَةُ المَآءَ بِصَدْرِهَا means The ship repelled, or opposed, the water with its prow.
2 He thrust, pierced, or stabbed, him, vehemently, with a spear.
3 دَسَرَ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun دَسْرٌ, He drove in a nail, with force: he nailed anything: he fastened, or repaired, a ship with a nail, or with cord of fibres of the palm-tree: or he fastened a ship by uniting its planks in the manner of sewing.
4 دَسَرَ, Verbal.Noun as above, Inivit feminam: you say دَسَرَهَا بِأَيْرِهِ.
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