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أَصْحَمُ

Root: صحم

Full Definition

أَصْحَمُ Of the colour termed صُحْمَةٌ: i. e. black inclining to yellowness: &c.: or, accord. to AA, intensely black: fem. صَحْمَآءُ.
2 The latter, applied to a فَيْفَآء [or smooth, or waterless, desert], or to a بَلْدَة [or district, &c.], signifies Dusty.
3 And الصَّحْمَآءُ is the name of A certain herb, or leguminous plant, not intensely green.
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