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تَبَرَّجَتْ

Root: برج

Form: 5

Full Definition

تَبَرَّجَتْV She showed, or displayed, her finery, or ornaments, and beauties of person or form or countenance, to men, or to strangers, or men distantly related to her; to do which is culpable; but to do so to the husband is not: or she showed her face: or she showed the beauties of her neck and face: or she did so exhibiting a pretty look: or she showed, or displayed, her finery, or ornaments, and what excites a man's lust. Fr, referring to verse 33 of ch. xxxiii. of the Kur, says that in the time when Abraham was born, the women used to wear a shirt of pearls, not sewed at the two sides; or, as some say, they used to wear garments which did not conceal their persons.


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