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طرّب

Root: طرب

Form: 2

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طرّبII , Verbal.Noun تَطْرِيبٌ, He sang. And طرّب فِى صَوْتِهِ He trilled, or quavered, and prolonged, his voice: or التَّطْرِيبُ فِى الصَّوْتِ is the prolonging of the voice, and modulating it sweetly. And, said of a bird, or, accord. to some, peculiarly of the مُكَّآء, It prolonged its voice, and trilled, or quavered, it, or warbled. And in like manner, طرّب فِى قِرَآءَتِهِ He prolonged, and trilled, or quavered, his voice in his reciting, or reading; and فِى غِنَائِهِ [in his singing]. And قَرَأَ بِالتَّطْرِيبِ [He recited, or read, with a prolonging, and trilling, or quavering, of the voice].
2 And طَرَّبُوا They raised their voices, cried out, or cried aloud, time after time.

def.2 طّربهُ: see 4.
2 [Freytag adds that, in the “ Fákihet el-Khulafà, ” p. 42, l. 5 infr., it means He asserted him to have sung excellently.]
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