اخرب

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اخربIV , Verbal.Noun إِخْرَابٌ, He reduced to ruin; or rendered waste, uninhabited, depopulated, deserted, desolate, uncultivated, or in a state the contrary of flourishing; a house, or a dwelling, or place of abode, or a country; as also خرّب , Verbal.Noun تَخْرِيبٌ; and , [Verbal.Noun خَرَابٌ, as in the Kur ii. 108:] or خرّب signifies the same, but in a more extensive, or a superlative or an intensive sense: you say, خَرَّبُوا بُيُوتَهُمْ [They ruined their houses; the ر being doubled because the verb has many objects: or they demolished their houses]. بُيُوتَهُمْ, in the Kur [lix. 2], means They demolishing their houses: this is the reading of AA: all others read يُخْرِبُونَ بيوتهم, meaning they going forth from their houses, and leaving them; or evacuating their houses; or leaving them in a state of ruin.
2 [Hence the saying,] عِنْدَهُ الأَمَانَاتُ [Deposits entrusted to him become lost, or perish].

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