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اذنب

Root: ذنب

Form: 4

Full Definition

اذنبIV He committed a sin, crime, fault, misdemeanour, &c.; he became chargeable with a ذَنْب [or sin, &c.]: it is an instance, among others, of a verb of which no proper Verbal.Noun has been heard; [ذَنْبٌ being used instead of such, as a quasi-Verbal.Noun;] for إِذْنَابٌ, like إِكْرَامٌ, [though mentioned in the KL, as signifying the committing of a sin or the like, and also in the TK,] has not been heard.
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