Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حوّرهُ

Root: حور

Form: 2

Full Definition

حوّرهُII , Verbal.Noun تَحْوِيرٌ, He made him, or it, to return.
2 He denied him, or prohibited him from attaining, what he desired, or sought; disappointed him; frustrated his endeavour, or hope; and caused him to return to a state of defectiveness.

def.2 حوّر, Verbal.Noun as above, He whitened clothes, or garments, and wheat, or food: and , Present.T يَحُورُ, Verbal.Noun حَوْرٌ, he washed and whitened a garment, or piece of cloth; but حوّر is better known in this sense.
2 حوّر عَيْنَ البَعِيرِ, He burned a mark round the eye of the camel with a circular cauterizing-instrument, on account of a disorder: because the place becomes white.

def.3 [He prepared skins such as are called حَوَرٌ: a meaning indicated, but not expressed, in the TA.
2 And app. He lined a boot with such skin: see مُحَوَّرٌ.]

def.4 Also, He prepared a lump of dough, and made it round, with a مِحْوَر, to put it into the hole containing hot ashes in which it was to be baked: he made it round with a مِحْوَر.


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