مَعْشَرٌ

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مَعْشَرٌ A company, or collective body, of people, consisting of men, exclusive of women; like نَفَرٌ and قَوْمٌ and رَهْطٌ; having no proper sing.: or any company, or collective body, whose state of circumstances is one; a community; as the معشر of the Muslims and that of the Polytheists: or a great company, or collective body; so called [from عَشَرَةٌ,] because they are many; for عشرة is that large and perfect number after which there is no number but what is composed of the units comprised in it: or the family of a man: or jinn and mankind: in the Kur [vi. 130, and lv. 33], we find the expression يَا مَعْشَرَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنْسِ; but this means O معشر consisting of the jinn and of mankind: and [vi. 128], يَا مَعْشَرَ الجِنِّ, without the mention of الانس: pl. مَعَاشِرُ. [See also عَشِيرَةٌ.]

def.2 مَعْشَرَ: see عُشَارَ, in four places.

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