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سُبْعٌ

Root: سبع

Full Definition

سُبْعٌ and سُبُعٌ , of which the former is a contraction, A seventh part; one of seven parts; as also سَبِيعٌ ; the last not heard by Sh on any authority beside that of AZ: pl. of the first and second أَسْبَاعٌ. Hence, أَسْبَاعٌ القُرْآنِ [The seven sections, or volumes, of the Kur-an,] in which one reads: said to be postclassical.

def.2 See also أُسْبُوعٌ, in three places.
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