Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

استرق

Root: سرق

Form: 8

Full Definition

استرقVIII : see 1, first sentence:
2 and see 3, in two places. [See also كَبِيسٌ.]
3 Also He deceived, or circumvented, secretly, [or by stealth,] like him who [so] listens.
4 And you say, استرق الكَاتِبُ بَعْضَ المُحَاسَبَاتِ The writer suppressed some of the items of the reckoning.


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