عَاشُورَآءُ
Root: عشر
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عَاشُورَآءُ
and
and عَاشُورَى and
عَشُورَى and
عَاشُورٌ , or يَوْمُ عَاشُورَآءَ (S, O, and K in art. تسع, &c.) or يَوْمُ العَاشُورَآءِ and يَوْمُ عَشُورَآءَ, The tenth day of the month El-Moharram: or the ninth thereof, accord. to some; but most of the learned, of old and late times, agree that it is the former; (Msb in art. تسع;) and AZ says that by the ninth may be meant the tenth; after the same manner as the term عِشْرٌ, relating to camels' coming to water, is [said to be] applied to a period of nine days, [but means the coming to water on the tenth day, counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first,] as Lth says, on the authority of Kh. Few nouns of the measure فَاعُولَآءُ have been heard.
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