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مُغْرِبٌ

Root: غرب

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مُغْرِبٌ and مُغْرِبَةٌ and مُغْرِبٍ, and العَنقَآءُ المُغْرِبُ, A certain bird, of which the name is known, but the body is unknown: or a certain great bird, that goes far in its flight or they are words having no meaning [except the meanings here following]. [See also art. عنق.]
2 Calamity, or misfortune. طَارَتْ بِهِ عَنْقَآءُ مُغْرِبٌ means Calamity, or misfortune, carried him off, or away. [See, again, art. عنق.]
3 And The summit of an [eminence of the kind called] أَكَمَة: or العَنْقَآءُ المُغْرِبُ signifies the summit of an أَكَمَة on the highest part of a tall, or long, mountain so says Aboo-Málik, who denies that it means a bird.
4 And [The people, or the woman,] that has gone far into a land, or country, so as not to be perceived nor seen: thus is expl. in the T العَنْقَآءُ المُغْرِبُ, as transmitted from the Arabs, with the ة suppressed in like manner as it is in لِحْيَةٌ نَاصِلٌ meaning “ an intensely white beard. ”
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