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العفطلة

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root pertains to the act of mixing or blending one thing with another. It describes the process of combining disparate elements into a single entity.

Derived headwords

العَفْطَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Mixing, blendingclassical

    The act of mixing one thing with another, or blending disparate elements together.

عَفْطَرَverb
  1. 1.
    To mix, to blendclassical

    To mix something with something else; to blend disparate elements.

Parallel reading

العفطلة، (بالطاء المهملة) : خلطك الشيء بالشيء.
Al-'afṭalah (with the unpointed ṭāʼ): your mixing of a thing with a thing.