Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قَشَرَهُ

Root: قشر

Form: 1

Full Definition

قَشَرَهُI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun قَشْرٌ; and قشّرهُ , Verbal.Noun تَقْشِيرٌ; He divested or stripped it of, or stripped off or removed from it, namely a branch, or other thing, its قِشْر [i. e. peel, rind, bark, coat, covering, husk, shale or shell, crust, scab, skin, or outer integument, or superficial part; he, or it, pared, peeled, rinded, barked, decorticated, husked, shelled, scaled, flayed, skinned, or excoriated, it; he, or it, stripped off, scraped off, rubbed off, abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer covering or integument, or superficial part]; but the ↓ latter verb has an intensive signification; [or denotes frequency, or repetition, of the action, or its application to many objects, as well as muchness;] he pared off, or removed, its peel, rind, bark, or the like, (لِحَآءَهُ,) or its skin: [and he pared, peeled, stripped, scraped, or rubbed, it off; namely, anything superficial, and generally a thing adhering to the surface of another thing, as, for instance, peel and the like, and a scab, and skin, and mud. One says of a fruit, or the like, يُقْشَرُ عَنْ حَبَّةٍ, Its covering, being removed, shells off from a grain or the like.]
2 قَشَرَهُ بِالسَّوْطِ [He excoriated him with the whip]. (TA, art. حمر.)
3 قَشَرَهُ بِاللِّسَانِ [He galled him, as though he flayed him, with the tongue; i. e., with reproof, &c.]

def.2 قَشِرَ, Present.T ـَ It had a thick skin.

def.3 قَشِرَ, [Present.T ـَ] Verbal.Noun قَشَرٌ, He had his nose excoriated by intense heat: or he was intensely red, as though he were flayed, or as though his scarf-skin were peeled off.


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