كَذَا

Root: او

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كَذَا and أَوَّ [Alas, on account of, or for, such a thing!] an expression denoting complaint of distress, or of anxiety, or of grief or sorrow; or an expression of grief or sorrow; like آوِ and and أَوَتَاه (K and TA in art. اوه,) or or , or آوَّتَاه , (S in that art., [the ه in one copy of which is marked as quiescent,]) and like آهِ and أَوْهِ &c. (S and Msb and K in art. اوه: see آهِ in that art.) AZ says, one says, أَوْهِ عَلَى زَيْدٍ [meaning Alas, for Zeyd!] with kesr to the ه, and عَلَيْكَ [thus without ه, meaning Alas, for thee!] with ت; an expression of regret for a thing, whether of great or mean account.

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