شَمَّاسٌ
Root: شمس
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شَمَّاسٌ
One of the heads of the Christians, who shaves the middle of his head, and keeps to the church: [in the present day, a deacon: see جَاثَلِيقُ:] not pure Arabic, or not sound Arabic: [probably, as Golius says, from the Chaldee 165 :] pl. شَمَامِسَةٌ. (Mgh, K: [in the TA, شماسة; and in a copy of the A, شَمَّاسَة; but the right reading is that in the Mgh.])
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