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مَكْثُورٌ

Root: كثر

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مَكْثُورٌ Overcome in number: one against whom people have multiplied by degrees (ثَكَاثَرُوا عَلَيْهِ) so that they have overcome or subdued him.
2 مَكْثُورٌ عَلَيْهِ [A place thronged].
3 فُلَانٌ مَكْثُورٌ عَلَيْهِ Such a one has spent what he had, and claims upon him have become numerous: or such a one has many seekers of his beneficence. See also مَشْفُوفٌ.
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