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طِينَةٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. ― -b2- Also [(assumed tropical:) A material substance considered as that of which a thing having form consists. ― -b3- And hence,] (tropical:) The natural, or native, constitution or disposition. (S, Msb, K.) One says, هُوَ مِنَ الطِّينَةِ الأُولَى (tropical:) [app. meaning He is of the primitive kind of natural constitution or disposition]. (S, TA.) And إِِنَّهُ لَيَابِسُ الطِّينَةِ (tropical:) [Verily he is tough in respect of natural constitution or disposition;] meaning he is not easy [in disposition]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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