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حُوَّةٌ

Root: حو

Full Definition

حُوَّةٌ [A brown colour;] redness inclining to blackness: or a colour intermixed with [the blackish red termed] كُمْتَةٌ, like the rust of iron: or blackness inclining to greenness. In the lip, [The brownish colour termed] سُمْرَةٌ; [i. e.] a colour resembling [that termed] اللَّعَسُ and اللَّمَى: or a blackness in the lips; which is approved.


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