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6 تَطَالَعَتْهُ ذ i. q. طَرَقَتْهُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) She, or it, or they (referring to irrational things), came to him in the night]: Aboo-'Alee cites [as an ex.], “ تَطَالَعُنِى خَيَالَاتٌ لِسَلْمَى
كَمَا يَتَطَالَعُ الدَّيْنَ الغَرِيمُ
” [Apparitions of Selmà come to me in the night, like as the creditor comes in the night to exact the debt]: but accord. to another, or others, it is only ↓ يَتَطَلَّعُ , because تَفَاعَلَ is generally intrans.: so that accord. to Aboo-'Alee, it is like تَفَاوَضْنَا الحَدِيثَ and تَعَاطَيْنَا الكَأْسَ and تَنَاشَدْنَا الأَشْعَارَ. (IB, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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