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مُفْتَعَلٌ

Root: فعل

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مُفْتَعَلٌ A writing forged, or falsified.
2 And Poetry composed with originality, not in imitation of any model.
3 جَآءَ بِٱلْمُفْتَعَلِ, meaning It produced a grievous, or distressing, effect, is a phrase mentioned by IAar, as used by Ed-Dubeyree when asked respecting a wound that he had received and that rendered him sleepless, and as used by him in respect of anything [unprecedented]: thus one says, عَذَّبَنِى وَجَعٌ أَسْهَرَنِى فَجَآءَ بِٱلْمُفْتَعَلِ i. e. [A malady that rendered me sleepless, tormented me,] and produced pain that had not been known before.
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