Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

رَبَاحِىٌّ

Root: ربح

Full Definition

رَبَاحِىٌّ A certain kind of camphor: so called in relation to a certain country, or town, agreeably with what is [said to have been] asserted by J, or to a certain king named رَبَاحٌ, who applied his mind to this kind of camphor, and discovered it.


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