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نَفْسٌ طُلَعَةٌ ذ , means نَفْسٌ تُكْثِرُ التَّطَلُّعَ لِلشَّىْءِ, (S, O,) or إِِلَى الشَّىْءِ, (K, TA,) i. e. (tropical:) A soul that inclines much to the love of the thing [that it would obtain], and desires it so that the man perishes: and طُلَعَةٌ is used also as applied to a pl., so that one says also نُفُوسٌ طُلَعَةٌ, (TA,) or أَنْفُسٌ طُلَعَةٌ, meaning souls eager, or vehemently eager, for the objects of their love and appetence. (O.) [See also طَلِعٌ.] And in like manner one says اِمْرَأَهٌ طُلَعَةٌ, (S,) or اِمْرَأَةٌ طُلَعَةٌ خُبَأَةٌ: (TA:) or this latter means (tropical:) A woman that comes forth (تَطْلُعُ [in the CK erroneously تَطَّلِعُ]) at one time (مَرَّةً [omitted in the CK]) and conceals herself at another: (O, K, TA:) and in like manner one says امرأة طُلَعَةٌ قُبَعَةٌ. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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