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خدع

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

4 اخدعهُ أخدعه اخدعه اخدعة خدع : see 1, first signification. -A2- He incited him to deceive, delude, beguile, circumvent, or outwit; or to desire to do to another a foul, an abominable, or an evil, action, without the latter's knowing whence it proceeded; or to pretend to another something different from that which was in his mind. (K.) In the Kur ii. 8, quoted above, Yahyà Ibn-Yaamar reads, وَمَا يُخْدِعُونَ. (TA.)

Derived headwords

اخدعهُverb
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