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دَغْرٌ دغر (TA) and ↓ دَغْرَةٌ (S, A, K) The act of snatching a thing unawares; seizing it hastily when its owner is unawares: (S, A, K:) or the springing, or rushing, upon a commodity, to snatch it unawares: or the filling one's hand with a thing and carrying it off. (TA.) Hence the trad. (S, A) of 'Alee, (TA,) ↓ لَاقَطْعَ فِى الدَّغْرَةِ [There shall be no amputation of the hand for snatching a thing unawares: &c.]. (S, A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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