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وَيْبٌ

Root: ويب

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وَيْبٌ a word like وَيْلٌ and وَيْحٌ and وَيْسٌ: these four words agree in form and meaning, and have no fifth; although some of the lexicologists differ, in holding that some of them relate to what is good, and others to the falling into destruction. Accord. to what is said by Z, in the Fáïk, ويب and ويح and ويس denote compassion: but <...


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