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خزر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 خزّر خزر , (TA,) inf. n. تَخْزِيرٌ, (K,) He made narrow. (K, TA.) You say, خزّر عَيْنَيْهِ He (an old man) narrowed his eyes; contracted his eyelids as though they were sewed together; to collect the light: when a young man does so, يَتَدَاهَى بِذٰلِكَ [i. e. he affects, or pretends, thereby, to be cunning; i. e. intelligent, or sagacious; or intelligent with a mixture of craft and forecast]. (IAar. [See also خَزَرَ: and see 6.])

Derived headwords

خزّرverb
  1. 1.
خزّر عَيْنَيْهِ