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أَجْوَدُ ذ [Better, and best; more, and most, goodly or approvable or excellent]: see 5. ― -b2- [More, and most, liberal, bountiful, munificent, or generous. Hence,] أَجْوَدُ مِنْ حَاتِمٍ [More liberal, &c., than Hátim]: a prov. (Meyd.) ― -b3- [More, and most, fleet, or swift, and excellent; relating to a horse. Hence,] أَجْوَدُ مِنَ الجَوَادِ المُبِرِّ [More fleet, &c., than the courser that surpasses others]: a prov. (Meyd.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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