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تضاحك

Root: ضحك

Form: 6

Full Definition

تضاحكVI and تضحّك [are both mentioned in the K and TA as though syn. with each other and with ضَحِكَ: and accord. to the KL, the former signifies He laughed: but accord. to the TK, the latter signifies he manifested laughing: or] the former is syn. with [app. as meaning he affected to laugh, or laughing: or, more exactly, agreeably with analogy, like the contr. تَبَاكَى and اِسْتَبْكَى, the former signifies thus; and the latter, he desired to laugh].
2 And you say also, هُمْ يَتَضَاحَكُونَ [meaning They laugh together, one with another].
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