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مِجْوَادٌ

Root: جود

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مِجْوَادٌ One who says, utters, or expresses, or who does, much, or often, what is good, goodly, approvable, or excellent; as also مُجِيدٌ : [or rather the latter is a simple, not an intensive, epithet:] the former is applied to a poet, as syn. with the latter, or as meaning who says, or utters, much, or often, what is good, or excellent: and both are applied to a workman, or an artificer: pl. of the former مَجَاوِيدُ.
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