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روغ

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

رَوَّاغٌ ذ [ Wont to turn aside or away from a thing: or to go this way and that, or to the right and left, quickly, and deceitfully, or guilefully: or to turn aside for the purpose of deceiving him who is behind: or to elude, or dodge ]. Mo'áwiyeh said to 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Ez-Zubeyr, اـِنَّمَا أَنْتَ ثَعْلَبٌ رَوَّاغٌ كُلَّمَا خَرَجْتَ مِنْ جُحْرٍ ا@نْجَحَرْتَ فِى جُحْرٍ [ Thou art only a fox wont to elude: whenever thou comest forth from a burrow, thou enterest into a burrow ]. (TA.) [Hence,] الرَّوَّاغُ is an appellation of The fox. (JK, K.)

Derived headwords

رَوَّاغٌ
  1. 1.
اـِنَّمَا أَنْتَ
ثَعْلَبٌ رَوَّاغٌ كُلَّمَا خَرَجْتَ مِنْ جُحْرٍ ا@نْجَحَرْتَ فِى