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عجّزهُ

Root: عجز

Form: 2

Full Definition

عجّزهُII , Verbal.Noun تَعْجِيزٌ, He attributed, or imputed, to him lack of strength or power or ability; i. e., inability, or impotence: he asserted him to be, or called him, or made him, (جَعَلَهُ,) unable, or impotent. [Compare 4, in a sense given below from the B.] You say also, عَجَّزَ فُلَانٌ رَأْىَ فُلَانٍ Such a one attributed, or imputed, the opinion of such a one to littleness of good judgment, or of prudence; as though he attributed it to inability.
2 Also He withheld him, or kept him back, or diverted him, from (عَنْ) a person or thing: [as though he made him unable to attain his object: compare 4.]

def.2 عَجَّزَتْ, said of a woman: see 1, latter part.

def.3 عُجِّزَتْ, said of a woman: see 1, latter part.
2 عجّز دَابَّتَهُ He put the حَقِيبَة [q. v.] upon his beast.
3 عجّز الشَّاعِرُ The poet uttered, or wrote, the عَجُز, or last foot, of the verse.
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