مَقْلُوبٌ

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مَقْلُوبٌ pass. part. n. of قَلَبَ الشَّىْءَ. You say حَجَرٌ مَقْلُوبٌ [generally meaning A stone turned upside-down]. And سَرِيرٌ مَقْلُوبٌ i. e. [A couch-frame] of which the legs are turned upwards. And كَلَامٌ مَقْلُوبٌ [A sentence, or the like, altered, or changed, in the order of its words, by inversion, or by any transposition]. And in like manner مقلوب is applied to a word: see 1, former half.

def.2 Also a man attacked by a disease of the heart. And A camel attacked by the disease termed قُلَاب [q. v.]: fem. with ة.

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