عَرُوبَةٌ
Root: عرب
Full Definition
def.2 عَرُوبَةُ and العَرُوبَةُ and يَوْمُ العَرُوبَةِ Friday; and ancient name of that day in the Time of Ignorance: accord. to some, it is most chastely without the article; thus it occurs in old poetry of the Time of Ignorance; and it is thought to be not Arabic; and said to be arabicized from the Nabathæan أَرُبَا: accord. to others, the article is inseparable from it; and its meaning, accord. to Ibn-En-Nahhás is the manifest and magnified, from أَعْرَبَ “ he made clear, plain, ” &c.; or accord. to an authority cited in the R, its meaning is mercy. [See art. ابجد.]
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