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تضرّب

Root: ضرب

Form: 5

Full Definition

تضرّبV [He beat, struck, smote, or hit, himself much, or violently; or several, or many, times]. One says, تضرّب بِالحَصَى [He smote himself much with pebbles], (K in art. كثح,) and بِالتُّرَابِ [with earth, or dust, as a man sometimes does in vexation].
2 See also 8, in two places.
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