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مَغْرِبٌ

Root: غرب

Full Definition

مَغْرِبٌ and مَغْرَبٌ: see غَرْبٌ, first quarter, in four. places. You say, لَقِيتُهُ مَغْرِبَ الشَّمْسِ and and مَغْرِبَانَاتِهَا and and مُغَيْرِبَانَاتِهَا I met, or found, him, or it, at sunset. [It is said that] مُغَيْرِبَانٌ is a dim. formed from a word other than that which is its proper source of derivation; being as though formed from مَغْرِبَانٌ .
2 مَغْرِبٌ signifies also Anything [meaning any place] that conceals, veils, or covers, one: pl. مَغَارِبُ, which is applied to the lucking-places of wild animals.
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