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شَتِرَ

Root: شتر

Form: 1

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شَتِرَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun شَتَرٌ; and شُتِرَ; He had an inversion in the eyelid; seldom natural: or an inversion of, or in, the lower eyelid: or an inversion of the eyelid above and below, or above or below, and a contraction thereof: or a cracking thereof, so that the edge [for الخِتَار, in the TA, I read الحِتَار,] became separate: or a flaccidity of its lower part.
2 And شَتِرَتِ العَيْنُ, and شُتِرَت, and , The eye had an inversion in the lid: [or in, or of, the lower lid:] or an inversion of the lid above and below, and a contraction thereof: or a cracking thereof, so that the edge became separate: or a flaccidity of its lower part.
3 And شَتِرَ, Verbal.Noun شَتَرٌ, He had his lower lip cracked.

def.2 شَتَرَهُ, and , or the latter but not the former, He caused him to have an inversion in the eyelid.
2 And شَتَرَ العَيْنَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun شَتْرٌ; and ; and شتّرها ; He caused the eye to have an inversion of the lid above and below, and a contraction thereof: or a cracking thereof, so that the edge became separate: or a flaccidity of its lower part.
3 شَتْرٌ also signifies The cutting off of the lower eyelid: for which a quarter of the whole price of blood must be paid.

def.3 شَتِرَ بِهِ He reviled him; found fault with him; blamed him; or censured him; in verse or in prose: and شتّر بِهِ, Verbal.Noun تَشْتِيرٌ, he detracted from his reputation; found fault with him; blamed him; or censured him; made him to hear what was bad, evil, abominable, or foul: Sh says that it is شنّر, and he disallows شتّر : but IAar and AA say شتّر; and AM holds this to be correct. [See also شذّر به.]
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