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ظَأْرٌ

Root: ظأر

Full Definition

ظَأْرٌ Anything accompanied by the like thereof: thus applied to a run (عَدْوٌ): in the K, and in the Tekmileh, عَدُوٌّ is erroneously put for عَدْوٌ: and عَدْوٌ ظَأْرٌ is used by the poet El-Arkat, in describing [wild] asses, as meaning a run not unsparingly performed.
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