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ارتوى

Root: روى

Form: 8

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ارتوىVIII : see 1, first and third sentences:
2 and see also 5, in two places.
3 ارتوت النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree, having been planted in a hollow dug for the purpose, was watered at its root.

def.2 It was twisted: or was twisted well, or thoroughly, or soundly: or was thick in its strands: or was composed of many strands, and thick, and very compact.
2 And ارتوت مَفَاصِلُهُ His joints were, or became, well-proportioned and thick; and so .
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