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مَجْهُودٌ

Root: جهد

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مَجْهُودٌ Severely affected, harassed, embarrassed, distressed, afflicted, troubled, inconvenienced, fatigued, or wearied: distressed, or afflicted, by disease or difficulty: afflicted with drought, barrenness, or dearth; or with drought, and dryness of the earth: and angry.
2 A hard, difficult, strait, or distressful, state of life.
3 Milk deprived of its butter entirely: or mixed with water: or diluted so as to consist for the most part of water; and in like manner, broth: or churned so that its butter is extracted and it is rendered sweet and pleasant: and used as meaning eagerly desired, or longed for, and drunk without its occasioning disgust, by reason of its sweetness and pleasantness: or eagerly desired, or longed for; and so food in general: or eagerly desired, or longed for, and drunk with perseverance, on account of its pleasantness and sweetness.

def.2 See also جَهْدٌ, in six places.
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