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كَاذِبٌ

Root: كذب

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كَاذِبٌ and كَذَّابٌ (fem. with ة, TA,) and and and and (like تِصِدَّاقٌ, TA) and كَذْبَانٌ and and and and and and and epithets, applied to a man, from كَذَبَ “ he lied, &c.: ” [the first word a simple epithet, signifying Lying, &c.; or a liar: each of the others an intensive epithet, signifying Lying, &c., much; mendacious; or a great, or habitual, liar]. Pl. of the first word [كَاذِبُونَ and] كُذَّبٌ; and of the third, كُذُبٌ: or, accord. to some, the last is pl. of كَاذِبٌ, contr. to analogy; or pl. of كِذَابٌ, which is an Verbal.Noun used as an intensive epithet.
2 See كَذِبٌ
3 نَاصِيَةٍ كَاذِبَةٍ, [in the Kur xcvi. 16,] signifies ناصيةٍ كاذبةٍ صَاحِبُهَا [By] a forelock whose owner is a liar.
4 Of the same kind is the expression رُؤْيَا , meaning رؤيا صَاحِبُهَا كَاذِبٌ [A dream whereof the dreamer finds it to be false, or vain; i. e. a false, or vain, dream]. [See also a verse cited voce خَيَالٌ.]
5إِنَّ قَدْ يَصْدُقُ [Verily the habitual liar in some few instances speaks truth]. A proverb.
6 نَاقَةٌ كَاذِبٌ, and , A she-camel that, being covered by the stallion, raises her tail, and then returns without conceiving.
7 حَمْلَةٌ كَاذِبَةٌ, and مَكْذُوبَةٌ [لَهَا? (see مَصْدُوقَةٌ),] A charge that is followed up with cowardice and retreating.

def.2 الكَذَّابَانِ An epithet applied to Museylimeh El-Hanafee and El-Aswad El-'Ansee. [Each of them is called الكذّاب.]
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