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غَثَرَتِ

Root: غثر

Form: 1

Full Definition

غَثَرَتِI i. q. مَأَدَت : or مَادَت (thus in the O and K [i. e. without ء; but the former, I think, is evidently the right: the meaning which I have given may be from غَثَرٌ, q. v., and therefore tropical: and it may be inferred from what here follows that the verb is correctly, or originally, غَثْرَت, fem. of غَثْرَى ]). The epithet applied to such land is .
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