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سَاعُورٌ

Root: سعر

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سَاعُورٌ : see سَعِيرٌ, in two places.
2 Also A sort of fire-place, or oven, (تَنُّورٌ, K, TA,) dug in the ground, in which bread is baked.

def.2 And The chief of the Christians in the knowledge of medicine and of the instruments thereof: [said to be] originally سَاعُورَآء, a Syriac word, meaning the investigator of the cases of the diseased.
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