مَمْهُورَةٌ

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مَمْهُورَةٌ A woman dowered; to whom a dowry has been given; or for whom a dowry has been set apart. It is said in a proverb, كَٱلْمَمْهُورَةِ إِحْدَى خَدَمَتَيْهَا [Like her who has been dowered with one of her two anklets]: or أَحْمَقُ مِنَ ٱلْمَمْهُورَةِ إِحْدَى خَدَمَتَيْهَا [More stupid than she who has been dowered with one of her two anklets]: applied to him who has reached the utmost degree of stupidity: from the following case: a stupid woman demanded of her husband her dowry, when he paid her his first visit, and she said, I will not obey thee unless thou give me my dowry: so he pulled off one of her two anklets from her foot, and gave it to her, and she was content with it. In like manner, a certain man gave to another property, and he married with it the daughter of the giver, and then reproached her for the dowry he had given her: so they said, كَٱلْمَمْهُورَةِ مِنْ مَالِ أَبِيهَا [Like her who has been dowered from the property of her father]: [a proverb] applied in relation to him who reproaches for that which is not his own.

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