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شكر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

شَكِيرٌ ذ (tropical:) The shoots that grow around a tree, from its أَصْل [i. e. root, or base, or stem ]: (S:) or sappy twigs or shoots, that grow from the stem of a tree: or small leaves beneath the large: (A:) or fresh and tender twigs or shoots, that grow among such as have become thick and tough: and what grow at, or upon, the أُصُول [i. e. roots, or bases, or stems, ] of large trees: or small leaves that grow at, or upon, the root, or base, or stem, of a tree: (IAar, TA:) and offsets, or suckers, or sprouts, of palm-trees: (K:) and the leaves that are around the branches of the palm-tree: (Yaa- koob, K:) and plants, and hair, and feathers, and abundant ostrich-feathers (عِفَاآء, K, TA, in the CK عَفاء), such as are small, growing among such as are large: or the first, of herbage, growing after other herbage that has become dried up and dusty: (K:) and downy hair, or down: and any soft, fine hair: (A:) or hair growing among the plaits: pl. شُكُرٌ: and weak hair: (TA:) and hair at the roots of a horse's mane, (K, TA,) like down, and in the forelock: (TA:) and the hair that is next to the face and the back of the neck: (A, K:) and branches: (AHn, K: [in the CK, والغُصُونِ is erroneously put for والغُصُونُ:]) and the bark (لِحَاآء) of trees: pl. شُكُرٌ: (K:) and the pl. also signifies the long shoots of a grape-vine: or its higher, or highest, shoots: (AHn, TA:) and the sing., a grape-vine growing from a planted shoot. (AHn, K, TA.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) Young men: (A:) or young offspring. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The young ones of camels: (K, TA:) as being likened to the شَكِير of palm-trees. (TA.)

Derived headwords

شَكِيرٌ
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