Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَبَى

Root: ابى

Form: 1

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أَبَىI , Present.T يَأْبَى, which is anomalous, because it has no faucial letter for its second or third radical, and يَأْبِى, mentioned by IJ as sometimes said, agreeably with analogy, and يِئْبَى, which is doubly anomalous, first because the pret. is of the measure فَعَلَ, and this pronunciation of the ...


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