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لفج
Root entry · 1 derived lemma4 أَلْفَجَ ذ and أُلْفِجَ He (a man) clave to the ground by reason of sorrow, grief, or solicitude, or of want. (L.) ― -b2- الفج, inf. n. اـِلْفَاجٌ, He, or it, constrained, compelled, or necessitated, a person, to have recourse to one, or to others, not of his family; (K;) constrained him to beg of such. (L.) ― -b3- أَلْفَجَنِى اـِلَى ذٰلِكَ الاـِضْطِرَارُ Necessity constrained me to have recourse to that. (AZ.) ― -b4- أَلْفَجَ, [not أُلْفِجَ, as might be thought from the signification of the part. n. مُلْفَجٌ,] (inf. n. اـِلْفَاجٌ; S;) and ↓ استلفج; (L:) He became a bankrupt; syn. أَفْلَسَ: (S, K:) he was, or became, poor: (TA:) he became destitute, possessing nothing. (A 'Obeyd.)
Derived headwords
أَلْفَجَverb
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أَلْفَجَنِى اـِلَى ذٰلِكَ الاـِضْطِرَارُ