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مُعَوِّذٌ ذ : see عُوَّذٌ, in two places: ― -b2- and see also مُعَوِّذٌ. ― -b3- المُعَوِّذَتَانِ, with kesr to the و, (S, O, L, K,) erroneously said to be with fet-h, (TA,) an appellation of Two chapters of the Kur-án; (S, K;) the last two chapters; i. e. the Soorat el-Falak and that which follows it: (O, L, Msb:) so called because each of them begins with the words قُلْ أَعُوذُ; (L;) or because they preserved their publisher from every evil. (Msb.) And المُعَوِّذَاتُ is sometimes used to denote The two chapters above mentioned together with that which next precedes them. (MF.)

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