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كَنْبَثَ

Root: كنبث

Form: Q. 1

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كَنْبَثَ
Q. 1
and تَكَنْبَثَ He became hard and strong: he became contracted; syn. تَقَبَّضَ: [app. in disposition; see كُنْبُثٌ: or in make; the second verb being also expl. in the L, with reference to a man, by the words تَدَاخَلَ بَعْضُهُ فِى بَعْضٍ].
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