صَوَّانٌ
Root: صون
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صَوَّانٌ
[Flint-stone; and flint-stones: thus in the present day:] a sort of stones, in which is hardness; hard stones, of a certain sort, with which fire is struck: or, as some say, certain black stones which are not hard: or a sort of hard stones, which, when fire smites it, crackles (يُفَقِّعُ) and cracks, and sometimes fire is struck with it, but it is not fit for [making] time, nor for heating for the purpose of roasting thereon: one thereof is called
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