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مِصْوَاتٌ

Root: صوت

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مِصْوَاتٌ One who raises his voice, calls or calls out, cries or cries out, shouts, clamours, exclaims, or vociferates; i. q. مُصَوِّتٌ : [or, as also صَوَّاتٌ , often occurring, who does so much, or is in the habit of doing so; each being of a measure denoting intensiveness of the signification.]
2 [Hence,] one says, مَا بِالدَّارِ مِصْوَاتٌ, meaning There is not in the house any one that raises his voice, &c.: in some copies of the K مُصَوِّتٌ , which has the same meaning.
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