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مِسْيَاحٌ

Root: سيح

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مِسْيَاحٌ One who goes about calumniating, and making mischief, in the land: pl. مَسَايِيحُ: so in the trad., لَيْسُوا بِالمَسَايِيحِ وَلَا بِالمَذَايِيعِ البُذُرِ [They are not of those who go about calumniating, &c., nor of the babblers who cannot keep secrets.] Sh derives it, not from السِّيَاحَةُ, but, from تَسْيِيحُ الثَّوْبِ.
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