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maqlūb (pass. part. of قلب 'to change, to turn,' etc.), part. adj. Changed, turned; turned upwards; turned upside-down, inverted; converted; transposed;—subverted; reversed:—maqlūb-mustawī, s.m. A word, or a sentence, which may be read backwards or forwards (as درد ; or the Eng. 'madam'); a palindrome:—kalām-ě-maqlūb, s.m. A sentence, or the like, having the order of its words changed by inversion, or by any transposition.
Origin: Arabic