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8 احتفل احتفل أحتفل ٱحتفل : see 1, in five places: -A2- and 5, in three places. -A3- اِحْتِفَالٌ also signifies The exceeding the usual, or ordinary, or the just, or proper, bounds, or degree; acting egregiously, or immoderately, or extravagantly; striving, or labouring; exerting oneself, or one's power or efforts or endeavours or ability; or the like; syn. مُبَالَغَةٌ; and so حَفيلٌ [an inf. n. of ↓ حَفَلَ ]. (M, K.) ― -b2- And اَحتفل, said of a horse, He showed his rider that he had attained his utmost speed of running, and yet had some remaining power. (AO, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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