Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُتَقَارِبٌ

Root: قرب

Full Definition

مُتَقَارِبٌ A short man: because his extremities are near together.
2 And المُتَقَارِبُ is the name of The fifteenth metre of verse; the metre composed of فَعُولُنٌ eight times; and [one species of] فَعُولُنْ فَعُولُنْ فَعَلٌ twice: so called because its أَوْتَاد are near together; there being between every two of them one سَبَب.


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