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كَهَرَهُ

Root: كهر

Form: 1

Full Definition

كَهَرَهُI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun كَهْرٌ, He chid him with rough speech, to show him contempt.
2 He reviled him.
3 He encountered him with a frowning face, to show him contempt: or he frowned at him.
4 He oppressed him; i. q. قَهَرَهُ. So in the Kur, [xciii. 9,] فَأَمَّا ٱلْيَتِيمَ فَلَا تكْهَرْ [Therefore, as to the orphan, thou shalt not oppress him]; accord. to the reading of Ibn-Mes'ood. Yaakoob says, that the ك in كَهَرَهُ is a substitute for the ق in قَهَرَهُ.
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