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مضّرهُ

Root: مضر

Form: 2

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مضّرهُII , Verbal.Noun تَمْضِيرٌ, He referred his lineage, or origin, to مُضَر [Mudar, the ancestor of most of the Arabs who trace up their genealogy to Ismá'eel, or Ishmael]: or he made him to be of the race of مُضَر by referring his lineage, or origin, to them.

def.2 It is said, of the race of مُضَر, in a trad., مضّرها اللّٰه فِى النَّارِ, meaning, May God make them to be in the fire [of hell]; the verb being derived from their name: or may God collect them together [therein]; like as one says جَنَّدَ الجُنُودَ: or destroy them; from the saying ذَهَبَ دَمُهُ خِضْرًا مِضْرًا, in the first of the senses explained below: J says, [in the S,] that its origin seems to be from مُضُورُ اللَّبَنِ, meaning “ the biting of the tongue by milk, ” and that it is with teshdeed to denote muchness, or intensiveness.
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