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مُرِنَّةٌ

Root: رن

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مُرِنَّةٌ is applied as an epithet to birds [app. as meaning Uttering plaintive sounds]: and, as also مِرْنَانٌ , as an epithet to a bow [as meaning twanging], and so to a cloud (سَحَابَة) [app. as meaning resounding with thunder]: and each is applied to a bow [itself]; and the latter, to a cloud [itself]; as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant [so as to imply, app., the meaning of resounding with thunder, or because it is hoped that it will resound with thunder, or because it often does so].
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