Etymology

zihar

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Today it means: A form of divorce among pre-Islamic Arabs, condemned in the Quran, in which a man says to his wife "you are like my mother". Full definition →

Arabic ظِهَار
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromظِهَار
  2. English todayzihar

From Arabic ظِهَار (ẓihār).

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