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دَهِشَ

Root: دهش

Form: 1

Full Definition

دَهِشَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun دَهَشٌ; and دُهِشَ, which is said to be formed by transposition from شُدِهَ, but Az denies this, and says that دُهِشَ is the superior form; He became confounded, or perplexed, and unable to see his right course: or he became bereft of his reason or intellect in consequence of shame, or of fear, or of heedlessness, or diversion by some occupation, or of fear, or grief, or intense grief, or of fright, and the like: and دهّش , Verbal.Noun تَدْهِيشٌ, signifies the same: or this last is trans., like ادهش.

def.2 دَهَشَهُ: see 4.
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