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4 اغشاهُ إِِيَّاهُ ذ and ↓ غشّاهُ He made it to cover it; or to be a cover, or covering, upon it, or over it. (MA, * TK, and Bd * and Jel * in vii. 52, &c.) ― -b2- And [hence,] both signify He made it, i. e. an event (أَمْر), to come upon, [or invade, so as to surprise, or so as to overwhelm, properly meaning] as a thing that covered, him, or it. (K, * TA,) Both of these verbs are used in this sense in the Kur-án accord. to different readings in vii. 52 and xiii. 3, and likewise (as mentioned in the first paragraph of this art., q. v.,) in viii. 11. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, the former, He made him, or it, to come to him. (S, MA, TA.) ― -b4- See also 2, in two places. ― -b5- [Hence,] اغشى اللَّيْلُ: see 1, former half.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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