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مِعْصَمٌ

Root: عصم

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مِعْصَمٌ The part, of the fore arm, which is the place of the bracelet; [the wrist: pl. مَعَاصِمُ:] in a citation from a poet (voce عَرَقَ), المَعَاصِيم is used by poetic license for المَعَاصِم. (L in art. عرق.)
2 And The يَد [meaning arm]; used in this sense in a verse of ElAashà.

def.2 Also, thus without the article ال, a name for The she-goat; which is called to be milked by one's saying مِعْصَمْ مِعْصَمْ, with the last letter quiescent.
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