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• ثَعْلَبَ Form Q. 1

  ثَعْلَبَ Q. 1 He was cowardly, and eluded, or turned away, or went this way and that, or to the right and left, quickly, and deceitfully, or guilefully; as also تَثَعْلَبَ : his doing so being thus likened to the running…

• ثَعْلَبٌ

  ثَعْلَبٌ [The fox; canis vulpes of Linn.: but in the dial. of Egypt, the jackal; canis aureus of Linn.: the former animal being there called أَبُو الحُصَيْنِ, as it often is by the Arabs of other countries:] a certain be…