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ظَأََّ

Root: ظأر

Form: 3

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ظَأََّIII see 1, in four places.
2 One says also, ظَآءَرَتْ, (Verbal.Noun مُظَآءَرَةٌ, T, A,) She took to herself a child to suckle.
3 And بَيْنَهُمَا مُظَآءَرَةٌ There is between them two that relation which consists in each one's being the ظِئْر [or rather the fosterer of the child] of the other.

def.2 ظَاوِرْ occurs in a trad. for ظَائِرْ. [But in what sense is not explained.]
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