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مَطْمَعَةٌ ذ [A cause of coveting, or desiring vehemently &c.;] a thing on account of which one covets, &c. (O, K.) En-Nábighah EdhDhubyánee says, “ وَاليَأْسُ مِمَّا فَاتَ يُعْقِبُ رَاحَةً
وَلَرُبَّ مَطْمَعَةٍ تَعُودُ ذُبَاحَا
” [And despair of what has become beyond reach occasions, as its result, rest: and assuredly many a cause of coveting is, in its result, (like) a disease in the fauces, or a poisonous plant]. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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