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عُجْمَةٌ

Root: عجم

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عُجْمَةٌ An impotence, or an impediment, or a difficulty, in speech, or utterance; and [a barbarousness, or vitiousness, therein; i. e.] a want of clearness, perspicuousness, distinctness, chasteness, or correctness, therein, meaning, in speaking Arabic. [See also 1, last sentence, where it is mentioned as an Verbal.Noun]

def.2 Also, and عِجْمَةٌ , Such as is accumulated, or congested, of sand: or abundance thereof: or sand rising above what is around it: or the last portion of sand.
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