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زجر
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaزَجُورٌ ذ (tropical:) A she-camel that will not yield her milk abundantly until chidden: (A, K, TA:) or that yields her milk abundantly to her young one if beaten, but does not if let alone: (TA:) or (K, TA, but accord. to the CK “ and ”) a she-camel that knows [ her young one ] with her eye, but repudiates it with her nose [ when she smells it ]: (S, K:) and a she-camel that inclines to the young one of another, and not to her own, but only smells it, and refuses to yield her milk to it; syn. عَلُوقٌ. (K.) ― -b2- It is also applied, metaphorically, as an epithet to war. (A, TA.)
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زَجُورٌ
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