Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَاْرَبَ

Root: عرب

Form: 3

Full Definition

عَاْرَبَIII [The following ex. is given of the Verbal.Noun of this verb.] One says, مَا أُوتِىَ أَحَدٌ مِنْ مُعَارَبَةِ النِّسَآءِ مَا أُوتِىَ فُلَانٌ, or مَا أُوتِيتُهُ أَنَا, meaning, app., [No one has been given what such a one has been given, or what I have been given, of] the means of coïtus [with women].


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