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5 تشكّى ذ He expressed complaint or lamentation, pain, grief, or sorrow; syn. تَوَجَّعَ; (Msb and K in art. وجع;) he made complaint or lamentation. (MA, KL.) See 1, in four places. ― -b2- [Hence] one says, تشكّى شَآئِى أَرْضَ كَذَا, meaning (assumed tropical:) [My sheep or goats] forsook such a land, [as though they complained of it,] and did not go near it. (TA. [But I have substituted شَائِى for what is there written شاكى, an evident mistranscription.]) -A2- See also 2, in two places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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