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مُفَنَّنٌ

Root: فن

Full Definition

مُفَنَّنٌ A garment, or piece of cloth, diversified; not uniform.
2 And Old, and evil in disposition, as an epithet applied to a man: and so with ة applied to a woman.
3 Also, with ة, A she-camel that seems to one to have been ten months pregnant, ثُمَّ تَنْكَشِفُ مَنَ الكِشَافِ [app. meaning then suffers, or exposes, herself to be compressed; from الكِشَافُ as Verbal.Noun of كَشَفَت said of a she-camel: compare تنكشف as here used with تَكْتَشِفُ said of a woman].
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