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ورب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

2 ورّب ذ , inf. n. تَوْرِيبٌ, [app., He expressed himself respecting a thing equivocally, or ambiguously, by words objectionable in one sense, and allowable in another: so thinks IbrD:] the inf. n. is thus explained: أَنْ تُوَرِّىَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ بِالمُعَارَضَاتِ وَالمُبَاحَاتِ. (T, K, but in the latter, the و before the last word is omitted.)

Derived headwords

ورّبverb
  1. 1.
أَنْ تُوَرِّىَ عَنِ
الشَّىْءِ بِالمُعَارَضَاتِ وَالمُبَاحَاتِ