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مِجْفَلٌ

Root: جفل

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مِجْفَلٌ applied to a camel's hump, Heavy: [properly, an instrument of overturning:] applied as an epithet to a camel's hump that is so heavy as to overturn the animal when, after rolling on the ground, he desires to rise.
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