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سَتَرَ

Root: ستر

Form: 1

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سَتَرَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun سَتْرٌ and سَتَرٌ, He, or it, veiled, concealed, or hid, a thing; covered it: and ستّر signifies the same, [or has an intensive sense, or denotes frequency or repetition of the action, or its application to many objects: accord. to Golius, “ sub velo, obtenso eo [sic], ne quis vir intueretur eam, custodivit puellam: et clam asservavit habuitque eam: ” as on the authority of the KL: in which I find nothing of the kind but تَسْتِيرٌ expl. by the words در پرده داشتن He protected another.

def.2 سَتُرَتْ, Verbal.Noun سَتَارَةٌ, She was, or became, سَتِيرَة, i. e., modest, or bashful.
2 And سَتُرَ, Verbal.Noun سِتْرٌ, He was, or became, intelligent.
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