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مُقْعَثٌ ذ [pass. part. n. of 4]. Ru-beh says, “ أَقْعَثَنِى مِنْهُ بِسَيْبٍ مُقْعَثِ
لَيْسَ بِمَنْزُورٍ وَلَا بِرَيِّثِ
” [He gave me liberally thereof, or from him, a large gift, (lit., accord. to the explanation of the verb, a gift made large,) not such as was small, or not such as was obtained by importunity, nor such as was slow in coming]: (S, * TA:) but As says that Ru-beh has done ill in using the phrase بسيب مقعث; for مُقْعَث, he says, means paltry, or little in quantity; syn. هَيِّنٌ and يَسِيرٌ [like قَعِيثٌ, which is said to have this meaning and also the contr. thereof]. (TA. [Perhaps the right reading in the verse cited above is ↓ مِقْعَث .]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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