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فُرَيْعٌ

Root: فرع

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فُرَيْعٌ , occurring [with tenween, perfectly decl.,] in a verse of Umeiyeh Ibn-Abi-s-Salt, i. q. فِرْعَوْنُ , which is a proper name of such as was King of the Amalekites [or rather of the ancient Egyptians, in general], like as قَيْصَر was of the Room [or Greeks of the Lower Empire], and كِسْرَى of the Persians, [and also] a foreign word, [wherefore it is imperfectly decl., in Hebr. פַּרְעֹה, i. e. Pharaoh,] a dial. var. of فِرْعَوْنُ, or used by poetic license: the pl. of the latter is فَرَاعِنَةٌ.
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