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تباكى

Root: بكى

Form: 6

Full Definition

تباكىVI signifies تَكَلَّفَ البُكَآءَ [i. e. He affected weeping; or endeavoured, or constrained himself, to weep]. Hence, in a trad., فَإِنْ لَمْ تَجِدُوا بُكَآءً فَتَبَاكَوْا [And if ye experience not weeping, endeavour to weep]: [or the words of the trad. are] اُتْلُوا القُرْآنَ وَٱبْكُوا فَإِنْ لَمْ تَبْكُوا فَتَبَاكَوْا [Peruse ye the Kur-án, and weep; or, if ye weep not, endeavour to do so].
2 And He feigned, or made a show of, weeping.


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