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مَزْجَرَةٌ ذ [A cause of زَجْر, i. e. chiding, &c.: a noun of the same class as مَبْخَلَةٌ &c.; pl. مَزَاجِرُ]. A poet says, “ مَنْ كَانَ لَا يَزْعُمُ أَنِّى شَاعِرُ
فَلْيَدْنُ مِنِّى تَنْهَهُ المَزَاجِرُ
” i. e. (assumed tropical:) [He who will not assert that I am a poet, let him approach me:] preventing causes forbid him. (TA.) And one says, ذِكْرُ ا@للّٰهِ مَزْجَرَةٌ لِلشَّيْطَانِ (tropical:) [The remembrance, or the mention, of God is a cause of driving away the devil]. (A, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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