أَدْنَأُ

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أَدْنَأُ [More, and most, low, ignoble, or mean, in his actions; &c.]. You say, هُوَ أَدْنَأُ مِنْهُ [He is more low, &c., than he]. Fr says that أَدْنَى in the Kur ii. 58 is [for أَدْنَأُ,] derived from دَنَآءَةٌ: accord. to one reading, it is أَدْنَأُ.

def.2 Applied to a man, Hump-backed: fem. دَنْأَى.

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