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خدر

“خدر” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to be or become numb or insensible; to dull
  2. to tingle out of numbness
  3. to drop off in vigor, firmness, stiffness, strength, or the like; to be or become limp or flaccid; to sag; to flag
  4. to screen physically with another object (such as a curtain or a drape)
  5. to confine (a daughter) to such a space until disposed of in marriage
  6. to restrict a (wife) to such a space
  7. to keep a (female slave) in such a space so as to make her a concubine or a sex slave rather than a servant or to prepare for the arrangement of her marriage
  8. to stay, to bide
  9. to intoxicate; to narcotize
  10. to anesthetize
  11. to deaden intellectually
  12. to shut in (a girl or a young woman); to mew up; to immure; to coop up

adjective

  1. numb; dull

noun

  1. a screen that covers or obscures (such as a curtain or a drape)
  2. the screen that obscures the room assigned to girl or a young woman
  3. the space where a girl or a young woman is thus confined
  4. the state of confinement in such a space
  5. numbness
  6. stupefaction
  7. indifference

Etymology

Compare Hebrew חֶדֶר (“room, ventricle”)

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