أَسْخَمُ
Root: سخم
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أَسْخَمُ
Black; like أَسْحَمُ.
2 [The fem.] سَخْمَآءُ is said to be applied to wine (خَمْر) as meaning Inclining to blackness: but what has been said above [app. as to the word and the meaning] is more approved.
3 Also, applied to a [stony tract such as is termed] حَرَّة, Of which what is smooth, or soft, or plain, thereof, is intermixed with what is rugged.
2 [The fem.] سَخْمَآءُ is said to be applied to wine (خَمْر) as meaning Inclining to blackness: but what has been said above [app. as to the word and the meaning] is more approved.
3 Also, applied to a [stony tract such as is termed] حَرَّة, Of which what is smooth, or soft, or plain, thereof, is intermixed with what is rugged.
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