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talaq
noun
[ taˈlɑːk ]
• (in Islamic law) divorce effected by the husband's enunciation of the word ‘talaq’, this constituting a formal repudiation of his wife.
Origin:
from Arabic ṭalaq, from ṭalaqa ‘repudiate’.
