مُخْدَعٌ
Root: خدع
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مُخْدَعٌ
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مِخْدَعٌ and
مَخْدَعٌ ; the first of which is the original form, the second being adopted because the first was found to be difficult of utterance; and the first is the only proper subst. of the measure مُفْعَلٌ; other words of that measure being epithets; A closet, or small chamber, in which a thing is kept, or preserved; i. q.
خِزَانَةٌ; by which is meant a small chamber within a large chamber: from أَخْدَعَهُ meaning “he hid it,” or “concealed it:” and [in like manner]
خَادِعَةٌ signifies a chamber within a chamber: Er-Rághib says, as though its builder made it a deceiver of him who might seek, or desire, to take, or reach, a thing in it.
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