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شُهْرَةٌ

Root: شهر

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شُهْرَةٌ a subst. from الاِشْتِهَارُ, signifying The appearance, conspicuousness, manifestness, notoriousness, notableness, or publicity, of a thing: or [generally] its appearance, &c., as bad, evil, abominable, foul, or unseemly; its notoriousness in a bad sense, or infamousness.
2 Any evil thing that exposes its author to disgrace; any disgraceful, or shameful, thing; a vice, or fault, or the like.
3 A dress of the most excellent or superb kind; and one of the vilest or meanest kind: both of which are forbidden.
4 [It is also used in the sense of مَشْهُورٌ.] One says, جَعَلَهُ شُهْرَةً [He rendered him notorious, either in a bad or in a good sense]. And صَارَ شُهْرَةً, (K in art. دول,) i. e. مَشْهُورًا [He became notorious, &c.]; said of a man.
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