بَصْرَةٌ

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بَصْرَةٌ Soft stones; i. q. كَذَّانُ; as also بِصْرٌ and بَصْرٌ ; or, accord. to Zj, this last is not allowable: or soft stones in which is whiteness: or in which is some whiteness: or soft stones inclining to white; as also بِصْرٌ , with kesr if without ة: [i. e. whitish soft stones:] or soft white stone; as also بِصْرٌ and بَصْرٌ : or glistening stones; as also بِصْرٌ : pl. بِصَارٌ: and rugged ground: or stones of rugged ground; as also بِصْرٌ and بَصْرٌ and بُصْرٌ : or these three words, without ة, signify thick, or rough, or rugged, stone: or the same three, hard, or strong, and thick, or rough, or rugged, stone: and بَصْرَةٌ signifies, also, land that is as though it were a mountain of gypsum: or land of which the stones are gypsum; as also بَصَرَةٌ and ; (so in a copy of the M, but accord. to the TA بُصْرَةٌ and بِصْرَةٌ ;) but the last is app. an epithet: (M: [see بَصِرَةٌ, below; and بُصْرَةٌ:]) also tough clay in which is gypsum; and signifies tough clay: or بَصْرَةٌ, or بَصْرٌ , tough and good clay, containing pebbles.

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