تَفْعِيلٌ
Root: فعل
Form: 2
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تَفْعِيلٌII
[Verbal.Noun of فعّل] is used by IJ as metonymically signifying The scanning of a verse; because the names of the measures of its feet, all of them, have the letters ف and ع and ل for constituents, as when you say فَعُولُنْ and مَفَاعِيلنْ and فَاعِلَاتُنْ and فَاعِلُنْ &c.
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