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2 خدّر مخدوج , (A, Msb,) inf. n. تَخْدِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ اخدر , (A, Msb,) inf. n. إِِخْدَارٌ; (K;) and ↓ خَدَرَ , (Msb,) inf. n. خَدْرٌ; (K;) He, (Msb,) or they, namely, her family, (A, Msb,) made a girl to keep herself behind, or within, the curtain; (A, Msb, K;) and kept her from menial employments and from going out to accomplish her wants. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] خَدَّرَتْ (assumed tropical:) She (a gazelle) concealed her young one in a covert of trees or the like, or in a hollow. (TA.) And ↓ اخدر (tropical:) It (a lurking-place) concealed a lion; (K, TA;) [as also ↓ خَدَرَ : (see مَخْدُورٌ:)] and (assumed tropical:) it (anything) prevented a thing from being seen. (TA.) ― -b3- [And hence,] خدّر (assumed tropical:) It (rain) confined people in their houses or tents. (TA.) And ↓ اخدر (assumed tropical:) It (night) confined, detained, or withheld, a person. (TA.) -A2- See also 4, where it is app. a mistranscription for تخدّر. -A3- خدّر (A) and ↓ اخدر (K) also signify It made a limb, (K,) and the body, (TA,) and a leg or foot, (A,) and an arm or a hand, (TA,) to become خَدِر, i. e. benumbed, &c. (A, K, TA. [See خَدِرَ.]) You say, خَدَّرَتْهُ المَقَاعِدُ, meaning Long sitting [lit. the sitting-places] made his legs, or feet, to be in that state. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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