Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عُسُسٌ

Root: عس

Full Definition

عُسُسٌ Slowness, or tardiness.

def.2 Also, [in the CK, erroneously, عُسْعُس,] Covetous merchants or traders: accord. to [some of] the copies of the K, it signifies تُجَّارٌ and حُرَصَآءُ; but the conjunction should be omitted.

def.3 And Large vessels.


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