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طَنْزٌ

Root: طنز

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طَنْزٌ Mockery, scoff, derision, or ridicule: [J says,] I think it to be post-classical or arabicized. [Golius says, it is termed in Armenian “ dnâs. ”]

def.2 Also A species of fish.
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