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اطّعم

Root: طعم

Form: 8

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اطّعمVIII , or اطّعمت البُسْرَةُ, The ripening dates, or the ripening date, acquired flavour, and became ripe, so as to be eaten.
2 [Hence,] one says, هُوَ رَجُلٌ لَا يَطَّعِمُ He is a man who will not become well disciplined, in whom that which should improve him will not produce an effect, and who will not become intelligent.
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