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الخَضَارِمَةُ

Root: خضرم

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الخَضَارِمَةُ A certain people of the عَجَم [i. e. Persians], of the sons of Fáris, who went forth [from their country] in the beginning of El-Islám, and dwelt in Syria: i. e., those people who went forth at that period dispersed themselves in the countries of the Arabs; some of them settling in El-Basrah, and these are the أَسَاوِرَة; and some of them, in El-Koofeh, and these are the أَحَامِرَة; and some of them, in Syria, and they are the خَضَارِمَة; and some of them, in El-Jezeereh, and they are the جَرَاجِمَة; and some of them, in El-Yemen, and they are the أَبْنَآء; and some of them, in El-Mowsil, and they are the جَرَامِقَة: the n. un. is خِضْرِمِىٌّ .
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