Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُرِيبٌ

Root: ريب

Full Definition

مُرِيبٌ , applied to a man, and to a thing or an event, i. q. ذُو رِيبَةٍ [expl. above, voce رَيْبٌ]. إِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا فِى شَكٍّ مُرِيبٍ, in the Kur xxxiv. last verse, means Verily they were in doubt causing to fall into suspicion or evil opinion: or it means ذِى رِيبَةٍ [having in it something occasioning suspicion &c.]: or ذِى رَيْبٍ [which means the same: or attended with disquiet, or disturbance, or agitation, of mind]: [see its verb, 4:] it may be from the trans. or from the intrans. verb.


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