Etymology

mutawatir

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Today it means: A large chain of narrations in the hadiths Full definition →

Arabic مُتَواتِر
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  1. Arabic · borrowed fromمُتَواتِر“successive”
  2. English todaymutawatir

Borrowed from Arabic مُتَواتِر (mutawātir, “successive”).

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