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مُتَدَارِكٌ

Root: درك

Full Definition

مُتَدَارِكٌ Uninterrupted; or closely consecutive in its parts, or portions: differing from مُتَوَاتِرٌ, which is applied to a thing in the case of which there are small intervals. See also دِرَاكٌ.
2 Applied to a rhyme, and to a word, Having two movent letters followed by a quiescent letter; as فَعُوْ and the like: or having two movent letters between two quiescent letters; as مُتَفَاعِلُنْ, and مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ, and مَفَاعِلُنْ, and فَعُولُنْ فَعَلْ, i. e. as فَعَلْ when immemediately following a quiescent letter, and فَعُولُ فُلْ, i. e. as فُلْ with a movent letter immediately followed by it: as though the vowel-sounds overtook one another without an obstacle between the two movent letters.
3 [المُتَدَارِكُ is also the name of The sixteenth metre of verse; the measure of which consists of فَاعِلُنْ eight times.]
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