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بَاكَيْتُهُ

Root: بكى

Form: 3

Full Definition

بَاكَيْتُهُIII , Present.T of the latter أَبْكُوهُ, or أَبْكِيهِ, retaining its original form, accord. to a rule observed in the case of a verb having an infirm letter [for its second or third radical] lest a verb with a radical ى should be confounded with one having a radical و, i. e. [I vied with him, or strove to exceed him, in weeping, and I exceeded him therein, or] I was a greater weeper (أَبْكَى) than he.


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