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شُنْعَةٌ ذ the subst. from شَنُعَ; (S, O, K;) [i. e.] Badness, evilness, abominableness, foulness, or unseemliness; syn. قُبْحٌ; (Har p. 196;) as also ↓ شُنُوعٌ : (O, K:) thus in the saying, فِى فُلَانٍ ↓ شُنُوعٌ [In such a one is unseemliness, or ugliness]; as also نَظْرَةٌ and رَدٌّ [or rather رَدَّةٌ]: (TA:) and one says also, فِى وَجْهِهِ شُنْعَةٌ and رَدَّةٌ and نَظْرَةٌ [app. meaning In his face is unseemliness, or ugliness]. (IAar TA voce شُفْعَةٌ.) ― -b2- Also Diabolical, or demoniacal possession; or madness, or insanity. (IAar, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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