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المُبْدِئُ

Root: بدأ

Full Definition

المُبْدِئُ , applied to God, The Creator, or Originator, of the things [that exist], who hath produced them at the beginning, not after the similitude of anything pre-existing. And المُبْدِئُ المُعِيدُ, so applied, He who createth mankind, and who returneth them after life to death in the present world and after death to life on the day of resurrection. (TA in art. عود.)
2 مُبْدِئُ مُعِيدٌ A man who has gone on warring, or warring and plundering, expeditions, time after time, and is experienced in affairs: (A 'Obeyd, and K in art. عود:) and a horse upon which the owner has gone time after time on warring, or warring and plundering, expeditions; or well trained and exercised, so as to be obedient to his rider.
3 [For other significations of مُبْدِئٌ, see its verb ; and see أَحْفَرَ.]
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