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مَحْرُومٌ محروم Denied, or refused, a gift: (Msb, * TA:) or denied, or refused, good, or prosperity: (Az, K:) in the Kur lxx. 25, (I' Ab, S,) [it has this latter, or a similar, meaning;] i. q. مُحَارَفٌ [q. v.]; (I' Ab, S, K;) who hardly, or never, earns, or gains, anything: (K:) or who does not beg, and is therefore thought to be in no need, and is denied: (Bd:) and who has no increase of his cattle or other property: (K:) opposed to مَزْرُوقٌ: (Az, TA:) accord. to some, who has not the faculty of speech, like the dog and the cat &c. (Har p. 378.) ― -b2- Held in reverence, respect, or honour; reverenced, respected, or honoured; and so ↓ مُحْتَرَمٌ . (KL. [But the latter only is commonly known in this sense.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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