سِبْعٌ
Root: سبع
Full Definition
سِبْعٌ
A certain
ظِمْء
of the
أَظْمَآء
of camels; i. e. their coming to the water on the seventh day [counting the day of the next preceding watering as the first]; or [in other words, which have virtually the same meaning,] their remaining in their places of pasturing five complete days, and coming to the water on the sixth day, not reckoning the day of the [next preceding] return from the water. You say, وَرَدَتْ إِبْلُهُ سِبْعًا
His camels came to the water &c.
2 Also The seventh young one, or offspring. (A in art. ثلث.)
2 Also The seventh young one, or offspring. (A in art. ثلث.)
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