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تفقّدهُ

Root: فقد

Form: 5

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تفقّدهُV He sought it, or sought for it or after it; or did so leisurely or repeatedly; as also : or he sought it, or sought for it or after it, it being absent from him; as also : or he sought, or sought leisurely or repeatedly, to obtain knowledge of it, having lost it: so accord. to Er-Rághib and many others; but this expression and تعَهَّدَهُ are used, by some, each in the place of the other, and the latter, accord. to Er-Rághib and many others, [properly] signifies he sought, or sought leisurely or repeatedly, to obtain knowledge of it, having known it before. You say, مَا تَفَقَّدْتُهُ مُنْذُ , meaning منذ فَقَدْتُهُ [i. e. I have not sought for, or after, him, or it, since I lost him, or it. See also 1, last sentence.
2 [Also He investigated it.]
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