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قَالِبٌ

Root: قلب

Full Definition

قَالِبٌ Red unripe dates: so in the dial. of Belhárith Ibn-Kaab: [app. an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant; for بُسْرٌ قَالِبٌ:] or an unripe date when it has become wholly altered [in colour] is termed قَالِبٌ.
2 And شَاةٌ قَالِبُ لَوْنٍ A ewe, or she-goat, of a colour different from that of her mother: occurring in a trad.

def.2 See also قَالَبٌ, in three places.
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