Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُسْتَعْلٍ

Root: علو

Full Definition

مُسْتَعْلٍ : see مُعْتَلٍ; and عَلِىٌّ, last quarter:
2 and see also المُعَلِّى, in two places.
3 اليَدُ المُسْتَعْلِيَةُ means The hand of him who takes by force, and of the plunderer, and the like: opposed to اليَدُ المُسْتَخْفِيَةُ: the Sunneh ordains that the latter shall be cut off [except in certain cases] but not the former. (TA in art. خقى.)
4 الحُرُوفُ المُسْتَعْلِيَةُ [The high, or elevated, letters] are خ, ص, ض, ط, ظ, غ, and ق; in which is a rising [of the tongue] to the palate; with إِطْبَاق [of the tongue (see 4 in art. طبق)] except in خ and غ and ق: opposed to المُنْخَفِضَةُ.


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