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هِزَّةٌ

Root: هز

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هِزَّةٌ Briskness, or sprightliness: and briskness, sprightliness, alacrity, or cheerfulness, disposing one to promptness in acts of liberality, kindness, and beneficence; or liberality of disposition; syn. أَرْيَحِيَّةٌ; and [in like manner] هَزِيزٌ briskness, or sprightliness, of camels when urged on by the singing of their driver.
2 A kind of pace, or manner of going, of camels; when the train goes quickly: or a state of commotion of a train or procession or cavalcade: or the confused sound thereof.
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4 The sound of the boiling of a cooking-pot: the reiterating sound of thunder; as also هَزِيزٌ which latter has likewise the following similar significations: a sound, or noise; as, for instance, a sound, or noise, of turning of a mill; as also أَزِيزَّ [Verbal.Noun of أَزَّ]: and the murmuring of the wind when it shakes the trees: or the sound of the blowing of the wind: or the lightness of the wind, and the quickness of its blowing.
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