شَكِسٌ
Root: شكس
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شَكِسٌ
, or
شَكْسٌ , and
شَكُسٌ , the first agreeable with analogy, A man refractory, untractable, perverse, stubborn, or obstinate, in disposition: or hard in disposition, or illnatured: or evil in disposition, or illnatured, and very perverse or cross or repugnant and averse; syn. شَرِسٌ: and
شِكْسٌ and
مِشْكَسٌ are likewise epithets applied [in the same sense, but the latter having an intensive signification,] to a man: pl. شُكْسٌ; a pl. of the first or third; or of the second, like as صُدْقٌ is pl. of صَدْقٌ.
2 Also the first,
2 Also the first,
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