مَجْهَلٌ
Root: جَهِلَ
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مَجْهَلٌ
An affair, or an event, or a case, and a land, and a habit, a property, a quality, a practice, or an action, that induces a man to believe a thing to be different from what it is. A desert (مَفَازَةٌ) in which are no signs of the way. And أَرْضٌ مَجْهَلٌ
A land in which are no signs of the way: or in which one will not go aright unless by means of the [signs of the way called] آرَام: pl. مَجَاهِلُ, which is the contr. of
مَعَالِمُ: accord. to the K, it has neither dual nor pl.; but it has both, as 'Iyád and others have affirmed.
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