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مُخْتَفٍ

Root: خفى

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مُخْتَفٍ A rifler of graves: because he extracts the grave-clothes; or because he steals covertly: a word of the dial. of the people of El-Medeeneh: fem. مُخْتَفِيَةٌ.
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