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وَمُجْحِفًا

Root: جحف

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وَمُجْحِفًا The thing passed by approaching, or coming near.
2 سَنَةٌ مُجْحِفَةٌ A year that renders the cattle lean: or a year that destroys people, or impoverishes them, or injures them, (تُجْحِفُ بِهِمْ,) by slaughter, or by marring, or destroying, the cattle.
3 And مُجْحِفَةٌ, alone, A calamity; because it extirminates people.
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