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تشمّر

Root: شمر

Form: 5

Full Definition

تشمّرV : see 2, third sentence.
2 [Hence,] تشمّر لِلْأَمْرِ, or لِلْعَمَلِ and انشمر لَلامر, He prepared himself for the affair, or for the work. [Freytag mentions اشمر للامر in a similar sense, “ Paratus fuit ad rem peragendam, ” as on the authority of J; but I do not find it in the S,]
3 See also 2 as syn. with 1 and 7.

def.2 [Also, app., as quasipass. of 2, It (a garment, &c., was, or became, raised, or tucked up, or contracted; and so signifies انشمر .]
2 See 2 again, in the latter part of the paragraph.
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