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كَلَامٌ مُخْزٍ كلام مخز Speech, or language, that is approved, so that one says of its author, أَخْزَاهُ ا@للّٰهُ. (TA.) They relate that El-Farezdak gave utterance to an excellent verse, and said, هٰذَا بَيْتٌ مُخْزِىَّ, i. e. [This is a verse such as that,] when it is recited, people will say, [or rather, such as will make it to be said of me,] ا@للّٰهُ قَائِلَهُ مَا ↓ أَخْزَى أَشْعَرَهُ [May God abase, or disgrace, the sayer thereof! How good, or excellent, a poet is he!]. (TA. [See 4.]) [Hence,] قَصِيدَةٌ مُخْزِيَةٌ [An ode] that is extremely good. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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