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صِيَارٌ

Root: صير

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صِيَارٌ The صَنْج; (O and TA in this art., and TS and K and TA in art. صبر;) i. e. the stringed instrument thus called: [this is the right meaning, as is shown by the latter of the two verses cited voce صُبَارَةٌ: but,] accord. to AHeyth, the sound of the صَنْج.

def.2 See also art. صور.
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