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مَخْسَرَةٌ

Root: خسر

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مَخْسَرَةٌ[ An occasion, or a cause, of loss; or of error, or going astray; or of being lost, of perishing, or of dying: a word of the same class as مَبْخَلَةٌ and مَجْبَنَةٌ &c.: pl. مَخَاسِرُ. Hence the saying,] المَسَاخِرُ مَخَاسِرُ [Occasions, or causes, of mockery, or derision, or ridicule, are occasions, or causes, of loss, &c.].
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