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زجر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مَزْجَرَةٌ ذ [ A cause of زَجْر, i. e. chiding, &c.: a noun of the same class as مَبْخَلَةٌ &c.; pl. مَزَاجِرُ]. A poet says, مَنْ كَانَ لَا يَزْعُمُ أَنِّى شَاعِرُ فَلْيَدْنُ مِنِّى تَنْهَهُ المَزَاجِرُ i. e. (assumed tropical:) [ He who will not assert that I am a poet, let him approach me: ] preventing causes forbid him. (TA.) And one says, ذِكْرُ ا@للّٰهِ مَزْجَرَةٌ لِلشَّيْطَانِ (tropical:) [ The remembrance, or the mention, of God is a cause of driving away the devil ]. (A, TA.)

Derived headwords

مَزْجَرَةٌ
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مَنْ كَانَ لَا يَزْعُمُ أَنِّى شَاعِرُ
فَلْيَدْنُ مِنِّى تَنْهَهُ المَزَاجِرُ
ذِكْرُ ا@للّٰهِ مَزْجَرَةٌ لِلشَّيْطَانِ