Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَخْصَرُ

Root: خصر

Full Definition

أَخْصَرُ [Shorter: and shortest]. You say, هٰذَا أَخْصَرُ مِنْ ذَاكَ This [road] is shorter than that. But this is irregular; أَخْصَرُ being formed from اُخْتُصِرَ, a verb of more than three letters.


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