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مُحَارَفٌ

Root: حرف

Full Definition

مُحَارَفٌ Prevented, or withheld, from obtaining good; withheld from good fortune, or from sustenance; denied, or refused, good, or prosperity; lacking good fortune; having no increase of his cattle or other property; contr. of مُبَارَكٌ: or having his gain, or earnings, turned away from him: or who obtains not good from a quarter to which he betakes himself: or scanted in his means of subsistence: or who works not, or labours not, to earn, or gain: or who earns, or gains, with his hands, but not enough for the support of himself and his household or family: مُخَارَفٌ and مُجَارَفٌ are dial. vars. thereof. (TA in art. خرف.)
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