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صغو ند صغى

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مَصْغًى ذ [ A place of inclining, or to which to incline ]. It is said in a prov., الصَّبِىُّ أَعْلَمُ بِمَصْغَى خَدِّهِ [ The child best knows the place of inclining of his cheek ]: i. e. he best knows to whom he should betake himself, or whither it will profit him [to go]. (TA. [See also Freytag's Arab. Prov., i. 715.])

Derived headwords

مَصْغًى
  1. 1.
الصَّبِىُّ أَعْلَمُ بِمَصْغَى