قَلَابِ
Root: قلب
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قَلَابِ
[as used in the following instance is an attributive proper name like فَجَارِ &c.]. اِقْلِبْ
قَلَابِ [Alter, O alterer,] is a prov. applied to him who turns his speech, or tongue, and applies it as he pleases: accord. to IAth, to him who has made a slip of the tongue, and repairs it by turning it to another meaning: يَا, he says, is suppressed before قلاب.
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