كُوَارَةُ
Root: كور
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كُوَارَةُ
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, written in both these ways in the T, in explanation of the word عَمِيرَةٌ, and
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, A bee-hive; or habitation of bees; syn. خَلِيَّةٌ: or a bee-hive, when made of clay: or a bee-hive, or habitation of bees, when containing honey: or a thing made for bees, of twigs, or of clay, or of twigs and clay, accord. to most copies of the K, or of twigs only, accord. to most of the lexicologists, like a
قِرْطَالَة [an asses' pannier], narrow at the head, in which they make their honey: or the honey of bees in the wax: or
[pl. of كُوَّارَةٌ] signifies domestic bee-hives; as also كَوَائِرٌ. [Of the latter pl., it is said in the TA, that ISd holds it to be pl., not of
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