عُشَارَ

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عُشَارَ Ten and ten; [or ten and ten together; or ten at a time and ten at a time;] changed from عَشَرَة, or rather عَشَرَةً عَشَرَةً; as also ; [for which reason, and its having the quality of an epithet, each is imperfectly decl.] You say, جَاؤُوا عُشَارَ عُشَارَ, and مَعْشَرَ , and عُشَارَ once, and once, They came ten [and] ten. MF says that the repetition is manifestly wrong; but it is allowed by the M and L, as well as the K; [and is for the purpose of corroboration;] and مَعْشَرَ is also authorized by the TS. A'Obeyd says that more than أُحَادَ and ثُنَآءَ and ثُلَاثَ and رُبَاعَ has not been heard, except عُشَارَ occurring in a verse of El-Kumeyt. [But خُمَاسَ is mentioned in the K.]

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