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riyā(prop. رءا ri`ā, inf. n. of iii of رأي 'to see'), s.m. Acting ostentatiously; affectation, show, pretence, hypocrisy, dissimulation, subterfuge, evasion:—riyā-kār, adj. & s.m. Hypocritical, deceitful, double-faced;—hypocrite, dissembler:—riyākarnā, To practise hypocrisy, to dissemble, to act ostentatiously.
Origin: Arabic