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مِثَالٌ ذ Quality, made, manner, fashion, and form; (Msb;) a model according to which another thing is made or proportioned; a pattern, (مِقْدَارٌ) by which a thing is measured, proportioned, or cut out: (T:) an example of a class of words, of a rule, &c. ― -b2- مِنْ غَيْرِ سَبْقِ مِثاَلٍ [Without there having been any precedent]. (Msb in art. قرح, &c.) ― -b3- [A bed:] بَناَتُ المِثَالِ The daughters of the bed; meaning women. (T in art. بنى.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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