مُوتَةٌ

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مُوتَةٌ A fainting, or swoon; and languor in the intellect: or [an affection] like a fainting, or swoon: madness, or insanity, or diabolical possession; syn. جُنُونٌ; because it occasions a stillness like death: or a kind of madness or diabolical possession (جُنُونٌ), and epilepsy, that befalls a man; on the recovery from which, his perfect reason returns to him, as to one who has been sleeping, and to one who has been drunk. [See هُمْزٌ.]

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