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مَتَاعٌ

Root: متع

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مَتَاعٌ Anything useful or advantageous; as goods: such as the utensils and furniture of a house or tent, or household-goods: any utensils, or apparatus: chattels: a commodity, and commodities; generally best rendered goods, chattels, household-goods or chattels, or utensils and furniture.
2 المَتَاعُ [signifies الفَرْجُ;] a woman's pudendum: [see مُتَوَهِّجَةٌ, in art. وهج: and] the penis.
3 مَتَاعٌ also applies to Food, the necessaries of life: see two exs. voce حَفَفٌ.
4 مَتَاعٌ for a divorced wife, A provision of necessaries, such as food and clothing and household-utensils or furniture: see عَرْفٌ, and Bd in ii. 242: i. q. تَمْتِيعٌ.
5 مَتَاعٌ i. q. مَا يُتَمَتَّعُ بِهِ, and الاِسْتِمْتَاعُ; generally best rendered Enjoyment, in the Kur iv. 79 and ix. 38 and similar cases. See مُتْعَةٌ.
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