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رَاعِبٌ

Root: رعب

Full Definition

رَاعِبٌ and رَعَّابٌ , [but the latter is an intensive epithet, or denotes habit, or frequency,] One who threatens; a threatener.
2 One who charms, or fascinates, by magical enchantment [or by the eye] or otherwise.
3 One who composes, or utters, the rhyming prose termed رَعْبٌ.
4 Also the former (راعب), A torrent that fills the valley: or that frightens by its abundance and its width and its filling the valley. It is applied also to rain. And A valley filled with water.
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