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فَرِحَ

Root: فرح

Form: 1

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فَرِحَI , [Present.T ـَ] Verbal.Noun فَرَحٌ, He rejoiced; was joyful, or glad; or was happy; syn. سُرَّ: or he experienced a sensation of lightness in his heart: or his bosom became dilated with delight, or pleasure, of short continuance, transitory, or fleeting, not lasting, as is the case in bodily and worldly pleasures; فَرَحٌ differing from سُرُورٌ in the manner expl. below, though each is sometimes used as syn. with the other. You say, فَرِحَ بِهِ He rejoiced, was joyful, or glad, or was happy, by reason of him, or it; syn. سُرَّ.
2 And He was, or became, well pleased, or content.
3 And He exulted, or rejoiced above measure; or he exulted greatly, and behaved insolently and unthankfully, or ungratefully. The verb is used in this sense in the Kur xxviii. 76.
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