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عجب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

عَجِيبٌ ذ : see عَجَبٌ, in four places, near the middle of the paragraph. ― -b2- Also Loved, beloved, or an object of love: so in the following verse, cited by Th: وَمَا البُخْلُ يَنْهَانِى وَلَا الجُودُ قَادَنِى وَلٰكِنَّهَا ضَرْبٌ اـِلَىَّ عَجِيبٌ [ And neither does niggardliness forbid me nor liberality lead me; but she is a sort of person, to me, an object of love ]: by قَادَنِى, the poet means يَقُودُنِى. (L, TA.)

Derived headwords

عَجِيبٌ
  1. 1.
وَمَا البُخْلُ يَنْهَانِى وَلَا الجُودُ قَادَنِى
وَلٰكِنَّهَا ضَرْبٌ اـِلَىَّ عَجِيبٌ