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قِشْبَةٌ

Root: قشب

Full Definition

قِشْبَةٌ A low, vile, ignoble, or mean, man, possessing no good: of the dial. of El-Yemen. [See also قِشْبٌ, last quarter.]
2 And The young one of the ape, or of the monkey: so, IDrd says, some assert; but he doubted its correctness; and the right word is قِشَّةٌ.
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