زَاخِرٌ
Root: زخر
Full Definition
زَاخِرٌ
A sea full, or flowing with much water, and rising high: and a valley flowing with a copious and high tide of water: and
زَخَّارٌ , also, is applied as an epithet to a sea [in a similar, but intensive, sense]. [Hence,] one says, فُلَانٌ بَحْرٌ زَاخِرٌ وَبَدْرٌ زَاهِرٌ
2 See also زُخَارِىٌّ, last sentence.
3 Also Rejoicing, joyful, glad, or happy.
means Liberal with the food of the belly in the time of hunger, when [the vein is full, and] the blood and the tempers are excited: or it means, and her lineage is high; for the vein of the generous flows fully with generousness. One says also عِرْقُهُ زَاخِرٌ meaningجَوَادٌ بِقُوتِ البَطْنِ وَالعِرْقُ زَاخِرُ
2 See also زُخَارِىٌّ, last sentence.
3 Also Rejoicing, joyful, glad, or happy.
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