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مَرْيَمٌ

Root: ريم

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مَرْيَمٌ A woman who loves the discourse of men, but does not act vitiously or immorally, or commit adultery or fornication. Also a [female] proper name. It is said by AA to be of the measure مَفْعَلٌ from رَامَ, Present.T يَرِيمُ: but some say that, as a proper name, it is arabicized, from مَارِيَة.
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