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أَلَقَ

Root: الق

Form: 1

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أَلَقَI , Present.T ـِ; or أَلِقَ, Present.T ـَ; Verbal.Noun أَلْقٌ and إِلَاقٌ; It lied; [i. e.] it was without rain.
2 See also 5.
3 Also, أَلَقَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun أَلْقٌ, He lied; spoke falsely: whence the reading of Aboo-Jaafar and Zeyd Ibn-Aslam, [in the Kur xxiv. 14,] إِذْ تَأْلَقُونَهُ تألّق [When ye spoke it falsely with your tongues].
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