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ذَئِرَ

Root: ذأر

Form: 1

Full Definition

ذَئِرَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun ذَأَرٌ, He was angry with him: he was enraged against him, namely his enemy, and prepared to spring upon him.
2 He became emboldened against him.
3 ذَئِرَ, Present.T ـَ He became contracted in his bosom, and evil in his disposition.
4 He was frightened, or terrified; he feared, or was afraid.
5 He was disdainful, or averse [from a person or thing]; or he disdained, or scorned: he became affected with aversion and disapprobation: 'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras says, ذَئِرُوا لِقَتْلَى عَامِرٍ وَتَغَضَّبُوا meaning They became affected with aversion and disapprobation on account of the slain of 'Ámir [and became angry]: or, as some say, were disdainful, or averse, thereat.
6 ذَئِرَهُ, (Present.T ـَ TA,) He disliked, or hated, it, and turned away, or back, from it.
7 ذَئِرَتْ عَلَىزَوْجِهَا, and ذَآءَرَتْ , contracted by El-Hoteiäh into ذَارَتْ, [see also art. ذر,] She was disobedient to her husband, and hated him; was averse from him; and became emboldened against him.
8 ذَئِرَ بِالشَّىْءِ He became accustomed, or habituated, to the thing.

def.2 ذأَرَ النَّاقَةَ He smeared the she-camels' teats with ذِئَار, that her young one might not such her.
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