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مَرْهُوبٌ

Root: رهب

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مَرْهُوبٌ Feared: [or feared with caution:] applied to God. In the phrase لَبَّيْكَ مَرْهُوبٌ وَمَرْغُوبٌ إِلَيْكَ [At thy service time after time: Thou art feared, and petitioned, or supplicated with humility, &c.], it is in the nom. case as the enunciative of an inchoative [أَنْتَ] suppressed.
2 [Hence,] المَرْهُوبُ, as also , [the latter in this case being like رَاضٍ in the sense of مَرْضِىٌّ,] The lion.
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