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قَزٌّ ذ A quality, or thing, that is to be loathed, or shunned, or avoided, for its uncleanness, in food; as also ↓ قُزُّ and ↓ قَزَازَةٌ . (M, TA.) See also 1. -A2- A man who feels, or has a sense of, or is moved with, shame, or pudency; whose soul shrinks from foul things: (M, TA:) and, as also ↓ قُزٌّ and ↓ قِزٌّ , a man scrupulous in shunning, or avoiding, unclean things, or impurities; (S;) who removes himself far from such things; (S, K;) who does not eat nor drink a thing willingly: (M:) and the same three epithets, (TA,) and ↓ قَزَزٌ (K) and ↓ قُزَّازٌ , (IAar, K,) a man well-bred, or polite, (ظَرِيفٌ,) who guards against vices or faults, and shuns acts of disobedience and afflictions, not through pride: (K, TA;) fem. قَزَّةٌ and قُزَّةٌ and قِزَّةٌ: (M, K: *) the pl. of قَزٌّ is أَقِزَّآءُ, which is anomalous. (M, TA.) -A3- I. q. إِِبْرِيسَمٌ [Silk: or raw silk:] (K:) or a kind thereof: (S:) or that whereof ابريسم is made; (Lth, Az, Msb, TA;) wherefore some say, that قزّ and ابريسم are like wheat and flour: (Msb:) a Persian word, [originally قَزْ,] (M, TA,) arabicized: (S, M, Msb:) pl. قُزُوزٌ. (M, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence, دُودُ القَزِّ The silk-worm.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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