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مَصْدُورٌ ذ A man (A &c.) having a complaint of the chest. (S, A, Mgh, Msb.) 'Obeyd-Allah Ibn- 'Abd-Allah Ibn-'Otbeh, on its being said to him, How long wilt thou utter this poetry? replied, “ لَا بُدَّ لِلْمَصْدُورِ مِنْ أَنْ يَسْعُلَا
” To him who has a complaint of the chest, there is no avoiding coughing. (TA. [See also نَفَثَ.]) ― -b2- It is also often used as meaning (assumed tropical:) Grieved, afflicted, or vexed. (TA in art. نفث.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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