Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَذَوَّرٌ

Root: عذر

Full Definition

عَذَوَّرٌ Evil in disposition; as though needing to excuse himself for his evildoing; vehement in commanding and forbidding, and in spirit. [Clamorous. ]
2 Applied to an ass, Wide in the جَوْف [i. e. belly, or chest], and فَحَّاش [app. meaning very lewd].
3 And, applied to dominion, (مُلْك, O, TA, in the copies of the K erroneously written مَلِك, TA, [in which and in the O exs. are cited showing the former to be right,]) Wide, or ample: or strong, and wide, or ample.
4 [Also, accord. to Golius, from the Destoor el Loghah, An agile animal.
5 And Freytag adds, from the Deewán of Jereer, عَذَوَّرَةٌ as signifying Brisk .]


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