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بحر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

10 استبحر أستبحر استبحر ٱستبحر (tropical:) It (a place) became wide, or spacious, like the sea: (A:) it spread wide; became expanded; (K;) as also ↓ تبحّر. (TA.) [See also بَحُرَ.] ― -b2- (tropical:) He (a poet, A, K, and a خَطِيب, [i. e. a speaker, an orator, or the like,] A) expatiated in speech; was, or became, diffuse therein. (M, A, K.) ― -b3- See also 5, in two places.

Derived headwords

استبحرverb
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