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بَرَجٌ

Root: برج

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بَرَجٌ Such a constitution of the eye that the white entirely surrounds the black, no part of the black being concealed: or width of the eye: or width of the white of the eye, and largeness of the eyeball, and beauty of the black part: or clearness of the white and black parts theeeof: or width of the eye, and largeness of the eyeball: or width of the eye with intense whiteness of the person: and distance between the eyebrows. [See also بَلَجٌ.]

def.2 Goodly, elegant, or pretty; beautiful of face: or [so in copies of the K, and in the TA, but in the CK “and”] shining, or splendid; conspicuous; and well known.
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