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زُرْقُمٌ

Root: زرق

Full Definition

زُرْقُمٌ Having, in an intense degree, that colour of the eye which is termed زُرْقَة; applied to the male and the female; [i. e.] applied also to a woman: accord. to Ibn-'Osfoor, it is [used as] a subst.; [or, app. as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates;] not [as] an epithet with a subst.; but accord. to Lh, one says رَجُلٌ زُرْقُمٌ and اِمْرَأَةٌ زَرْقَآءُ: the م is augmentative.
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