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تثر

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to abundance, multitude, and perhaps a dense or thick growth. It is primarily used in classical Arabic to describe a large quantity or a thick collection of things.

Derived headwords

تَوَاثِيرnoun
  1. 1.
    multitudes, crowdsclassical

    Large numbers of people or things gathered together; dense collections.

تَوَاثَرَverb
  1. 1.
    to be abundant, numerousclassical

    To occur in great numbers or abundance; to be plentiful.

Parallel reading

التواثير الجلاوزة
The multitudes are the guards.