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بُلْعُومٌ

Root: بلع

Full Definition

بُلْعُومٌ and بُلْعُمٌ ; (Msb, and S and K in art. بلعم;) the latter a contraction of the former; the م augmentative; The place of passage of the food in the حَلْق; the gullet, or œsophagus; as also مَبْلَعٌ : or this last, i. q. حَلْقٌ [which is properly the fauces; but by a synecdoche, the throat, or gullet]. [See an ex. voce سُرْمٌ.]

def.2 Also, the first, A torrent, in ground such as is termed قُفّ, entering into the earth. (AHn, and K in art. بلعم.)

def.3 And The whiteness that is upon the lip of the ass, (K in art. بلعم,) at the extremity of the mouth-


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