كرّرهُ

Root: كر

Form: 2

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كرّرهُII , Verbal.Noun تَكْرِيرٌ and تَكْرَارٌ, or the latter is a simple subst., or, as AA said to Aboo-Sa'eed Ed-Dareer, in reply to a question respecting the difference between the measures تَفْعَالٌ and تِفْعَالٌ, the latter is a simple subst., and the former, with fet-h, is an Verbal.Noun, [but there are two inf. ns. of the measure تِفْعَالٌ, both of unaugmented verbs, namely تِبْيَانٌ and تِلْقَآءٌ,] and تَكِرَّةٌ, [He repeated it, or reiterated it, either once or more than once:] he repeated it several times; reiterated it: or he repeated it one time after another; which may mean he tripled it, unless the “ other ” time be not reckoned as a repetition; as also كَرْكَرَهُ ; (K; [in the CK, كَرْكَرَةً is put by mistake for كَرْكَرَهُ;]) either by act or by speech: it differs from أَعَادَهُ, which signifies only “ he repeated it once; ” for none but the vulgar say أَعَادَهُ مَرَّاتٍ; whereas كَرَّرَهُ may signify [not only the same as أَعَادَهُ, as it does in many instances, but also] he repeated it time after time: some explain كَرَّرَهُ as signifying he mentioned it twice, and he mentioned it one time after another: when it is used in the former of these two senses, the term تَكْرَارٌ applies to the second, and to the first [with respect to the second]: but its explanation as signifying the mentioning a thing one time after another is a conventional rendering of the rhetoricians: Es-Suyootee says, that تَكْرَارٌ signifies the renewing the first word or phrase; and it denotes a sort of تَأْكِيد [or corroboration]: but it is said to be a condition of تأكيد that the words or phrases [which are repeated] be without interruption, and occur not more than three times; and that تكرار differs from it in both these particulars; so that the phrase in the Kur, [chap. lv.,] فَبِأَىِّ آلَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ is an instance of تكرار, not of تأكيد, because it occurs [with interruptions and] more than three times; and so another phrase in the Kur, [chap. lxxvii.,] وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ. You say كَرَّر عَلَى سَمْعِهِ كَذَا [He repeated, or reiterated, such a thing, or saying, to his ear, or ears, or hearing].

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