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تشوّر

Root: شور

Form: 5

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تشوّرV He had a deed done to him of which one should be ashamed. [It occurs in a saying of Yaakoob, respecting an indecent action of an Arab of the desert, app. as meaning His pudenda became exposed; but some disapprove it, and say that it is not genuine Arabic; as is stated in the TA.]
2 He was, or became, confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course, by reason of shame; or ashamed, and confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course, in consequence of a deed that he had done.

def.2 See also 1, last sentence.
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