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عَارٌ

Root: عير

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عَارٌ A disgrace; a shame; a thing that occasions one's being reviled; a vice, or fault, or the like; a thing for which one is, or is to be, blamed, or dispraised; (B, in TA, art. عور;) anything that necessarily occasions blame or reproach, or disgrace: pl. أَعْيَارٌ: and , of which the sing. is app. , [is syn. with أَعْيَارٌ, for it] signifies things for which one is, or is to be, blamed, upbraided, reproached, or found fault with; syn. مَعَايِبُ.
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