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غَيْظٌ

Root: غيظ

Full Definition

غَيْظٌ Anger; wrath; syn. غَضَبٌ: or [rage, or vehement anger; for] it has a more intensive signification than غَضَبٌ: or the former is latent [anger]; and the latter is apparent: or the former is that which affects a person who has not power to exercise it; and the latter, that which affects a person who has power to exercise it: or the former, latent anger affecting one who has not power to exercise it: or most vehement anger, encompassing the liver, by reason of some event that is disliked or hated, and sometimes by reason of nothing: or the outbreak, and commencement, of anger.
2 تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ ٱلْغَيْظِ, in the Kur [lxvii. 8], means It shall almost burst asunder by reason of vehemence of heat.
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