مُتَشَابِهٌ
1.
Consimilar, or conformable, in its several parts: thus مُتَشَابِهًا means in the Qur'an, 39:24. (Jel.) And مُتَشَابِهَاتٌ Things like, or resembling, one another. (JK, S.)
2.
See also مُشْتَبِهٌ.
3.
مُتَشَابِهَاتٌ in the Qur'an, 3:5 means Verses that are equivocal, or ambiguous; i. e. susceptible of different interpretations: (Ksh:) or verses unintelligible; such as the commencements [of many] of the chapters: (Jel:) or the مُتَشَابِه in the Qur'an is that of which the meaning is not to be learned from its words; and this is of two sorts; one is that of which the meaning is known by referring it to what is termed
مُحْكَم [q. v.]; and the other is that of which the knowledge of its real meaning is not attainable in any way: (TA:) or it means what is not understood without repeated con-
sideration: (TA in article فسر:) Ed-Dahhák is related to have explained المُحْكَمَاتُ as meaning “ what have not been abrogated; ” and المُتَشَابِهَاتُ as meaning what have been abrogated. (TA in the present article)