Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تَمَثَّلَ

Root: مثل

Form: 5

Full Definition

تَمَثَّلَV [He affected to be like, or imitated, such a thing;] i. q. تَشَبَّهَ بِهِ. (TA, art. شبه.)
2 تَمَثَّلَ البَيْتَ and [more commonly] بِالبَيْتِ He used, or applied, the verse as a proverb, or proverbially.
3 See تَشَبَّهَ.


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