اغترف

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Arabic[edit]

Root
غ ر ق (ḡ-r-q)

Verb[edit]

اِغْتَرَفَ (iḡtarafa) VIII, non-past يَغْتَرِفُ‎ (yaḡtarifu)

  1. to lade out, to scoop, to extract
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 34:27:
      رَأَيْتُنَا نَغْتَرِفُ مِنْ وَقْبِ عَيْنِهِ [ٱلْعَنْبَرِ] بِٱلْقِلَالِ الدُّهْنَ وَنَقْتَطِعُ مِنْهُ الْفِدَرَ كَٱلثَّوْرِ أَوْ كَقَدْرِ الثَّوْرِ
      raʔaytunā naḡtarifu min waqbi ʕaynihi [l-ʕanbari] bi-l-qilāli d-duhna wanaqtaṭiʕu minhu l-fidara kaṯ-ṯawri ʔaw kaqadri ṯ-ṯawri
      I saw how we extracted pitcher after pitcher full of fat from the cavity of its [the sperm whale’s] eye, and cut from it pieces of meat resembling a bull or being of the measure of a bull.

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