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مَحْرُومٌ

Root: حرم

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مَحْرُومٌ Denied, or refused, a gift: or denied, or refused, good, or prosperity: in the Kur lxx. 25, [it has this latter, or a similar, meaning;] i. q. مُحَارَفٌ [q. v.]; who hardly, or never, earns, or gains, anything: or who does not beg, and is therefore thought to be in no need, and is denied: and who has no increase of his cattle or other property: opposed to مَزْرُوقٌ: accord. to some, who has not the faculty of speech, like the dog and the cat &c.
2 Held in reverence, respect, or honour; reverenced, respected, or honoured; and so مُحْتَرَمٌ .
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