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نَبِيتٌ

Root: نبت

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نَبِيتٌ Vile, and contemptible, or despicable: said of a man, and of a thing. In some copies of the K, and in the L, instead of حَقِيرٌ, we read فَقِيرٌ, [accord. to which, the meaning is vile, and poor].
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