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ثُكْلٌ ثكل The loss, or the state of being bereft, of a child [by death], (S, Msb, K,) or of a friend, or person beloved; (K;) i. e., a woman's loss of her child; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ ثَكَلٌ [which is the inf. n. by general consent], (S, K,) and ↓ ثَكْلٌ . (TA.) It is said in a prov., العُقُوقُ ثُكْلُ مَنْ لَمْ يَثْكَلٌ [Undutiful treatment of a parent is (like) the bereavement of him who is not (really) bereft of his child]. (TA.) ― -b2- Also Death: and a state of perdition or destruction. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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