تعذّر
Root: عذر
Form: 5
Full Definition
2 Also He went backwards; drew back; remained behind; or held back: or he held back, or withheld himself, for a cause rendering him excused. (TA voce تَغَدَّرَ, q. v.)
3 And He fled. You say, تعذّروا عَلَيْهِ They fled from him, and abstained from aiding, or assisting, him, or held back from him.
4 And He resisted, and was difficult: it is said in a trad., [respecting Mohammad,] كَانَ يَتَعَذَّرُ فِى مَرَضِهِ He used to resist, and be difficult, in his malady.
5 And تعذّر الأَمْرُ The affair was not direct in its tendency; i. e. it was, or became, difficult: one says, تعذّر عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرُ The affair was, or became, difficult to him. [And The affair was, or became, impracticable, or impossible.]
def.2 تعذّر الرَّسْمُ The رسم [i. e. trace, or relic, of an abode, or of a place of sojourning, &c.,] became effaced; as also اعتذر : or became altered and effaced: and المَنَازِلُ the places of alighting, or abode, had their traces, or remains, effaced.
def.3 And تعذّر (from العَذِرَةُ, S, O) He, or it, became defiled, or besmeared, with عَذِرَة [or human ordure].
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