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شِرَّةٌ ذ : see شَرٌّ, first sentence. ― -b2- Also The inordinate desire, or eagerness, (S,) and sprightliness, of youth: (S, K:) and in an absolute sense, inordinate desire, or eagerness; and [simply] desire; and sprightliness: (TA:) [and] sharpness, and angriness. (Har p. 35.) It is said in a trad., إِِنَّ لِهٰذَا القُرْآنِ شِرَّةً ثُمَّ إِِنَّ لِلنَّاسِ عَنْهُ فَتْرَةً [Verily there is an eagerness for this Kur-án: then men have a weariness of it]. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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