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كَبَاثٌ

Root: كبث

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كَبَاثٌ [coll. gen. n.] What is ripe of the fruit of the أَرَاك; what is unripe thereof being called بَرِير: or what has become black thereof: (TA in art. برم: [see also مَرْدٌ:]) or what is unripe thereof: or, as some say, the fruit of that tree when scattered: n. un. with ة: the كباث are, in quantity (مِقْدَار), a little above the grains of the coriander, and fill both the hands of a man; being more than a camel takes at once into his mouth.
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