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مُرَزَّإٌِ ذ ; (so in some copies of the S; in others مُرْزَأٌ, which is said in the K to be a mistranscription;) pl. مُرَزَّؤُونَ: (K:) A generous man, (S, K, * [in the latter of which only the pl. is explained,] and TA,) whose good things men get, or obtain, (S,) or from whom much is gotten, or obtained. (TA.) One says, in praising, فُلَانٌ مُرَزَّأٌ فِى مَالِهِ [Such a one is a person from whom much of his property has been obtained]: and in expressing pity and grief, فُلَانٌ مُرَزَّأٌ فِى أَهْلِهِ [Such a one is a person who has had some one, or more, of his family taken from him]. (Ham p. 176.) And the pl., mentioned above, also signifies Persons of whom the best have died: (K:) or persons of whom death befalls the best. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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