shab

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Ghalib's "hota hai shab-o-roz tamaasha" is getting so farcically redefined each passing day.

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  1. A scab. He shrapeth on his shabbes. Political Songs (ed. Wright), p. 239.
  2. A disease incident to sheep; a kind of itch which makes the wool fall off; scab: same as ray or rubbers.
  3. To rub or scratch, as a dog or cat scratching itself.
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  • Ghalib's "hota hai shab-o-roz tamaasha" is getting so farcically redefined each passing day. —  Kafila
  • I started chatting with our driver who had cheerily responded to my salaam and shab beheyr with a hearty handshake. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • At least 800,000 Muslims will gather in Malappuram district for shab-e-qadr prayers held on the 26th night of the holy month of Ramadan, which in Kerala will be celebrated Sep 26, said Sayyid Ibrahimul Khaleelul Bukhari, chairman of Ma'din Islamic Academy, here Monday. —  India eNews
  • Muslims believe the first verse of the holy Quran was revealed to Prophet Mohammed on shab-e-qadr. —  India eNews
  • Pareesa does the same and whispers shab becha, shab bechay, berem shab bechay, over and over again until she has tethered her three-year-olds to the slow sinking rock of sleep. —  VQR
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  1. from Middle English shab, *schrab; an assibilated form of scab, n. Cf. shabby.
  2. An assibilated form of scab, v.; cf. shab, n.
 

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