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Depending on the context, the word can have different meanings. In the context of morphology, it refers to a word having a defective letter (the long vowels in Arabic, alif, yaa, waw). When a word includes a defective letter it becomes subject to particular morphological rules.

And sickly, disordered, invalid, unhealthy, unwell, unsound

According to Al-Mawrid

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