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روغ
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaأَرْوَغُ ذ [ More, and most, wont to turn aside or away from a thing: to go this way and that, or to the right and left, quickly, and deceitfully, or guilefully: to turn aside for the purpose of deceiving him who is behind: or to elude, or dodge ]. Tarafeh Ibn-El-'Abd said to 'Amr Ibn-Hind, censuring his companions, كُلُّهُمُ أَرْوَغُ مِنْ ثَعْلَبٍ مَا أَشْبَهَ اللَّيْلَةَ بِالبَارِحَهْ [ Every one of them is more wont to elude than a fox: how like is this night to yesternight! meaning, how like are they, one to another! see art. برح]: أَرْوَغُ مِنْ ثَعْلَبٍ is a prov. (TA.)
Derived headwords
أَرْوَغُ
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كُلُّهُمُ أَرْوَغُ مِنْ ثَعْلَبٍ
مَا أَشْبَهَ اللَّيْلَةَ بِالبَارِحَهْ
أَرْوَغُ مِنْ ثَعْلَبٍ