Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

كَظِيظٌ

Root: كظ

Full Definition

كَظِيظٌ A man replete with food.
2 A skin for water or milk filled so as to be made to stretch; as also مَكْظُوظٌ .
3 A man oppressed, or distressed [and overcome, (see كَظٌّ,)] by affairs, so as to be unable to perform them; as also مَكْظُوظٌ and مُكَظَّظٌ : or all these signify grieved, and full of heaviness.
4 Angry, or enraged, in the most vehement degree.

def.2 A state of fulness, or impletion.
2 A mutual straitening, or crowding together. You say, عَلَى بَابِ فُلَانٍ كَظِيظٌ At the door of such a one is a crowding together.


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