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بِزَّةٌ

Root: بز

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بِزَّةٌ Constraint, or force: as in the saying, لَنْ يَأْخُذَهُ أَبَدًا بِزَّةً مِنِّى He will never take it by constraint, or force, from me.

def.2 Outward appearance; state with regard to apparel and the like; syn. هَيْئَةٌ, and شَارَةٌ: garb; mode, manner, or fashion, of dress: apparel. You say, رَجُلٌ حَسَنُ البِزَّةِ A man of goodly outward appearance, or state of apparel and the like: or as some say, clothes and arms. And إِنَّهُ لَذُو بِزَّةٍ حَسَنَةٍ Verily he has a goodly outward appearance and dress.

def.3 See also بَزٌّ, latter part, in two places.
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