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مِلْحَاحٌ

Root: لح

Full Definition

مِلْحَاحٌ A cloud continually, or incessantly, raining.
2 A man [very] importunate, pressing, persevering, assiduous, or constant, in asking, begging, petitioning, or seeking.
3 رَحًى مِلْحَاحٌ عَلَى مَا تَطْحَنُهُ A mill-stone that presses hard upon that which it grinds.
4 مِلْحَاحٌ A saddle of the kind called قَتَب that wounds the back; that wounds the camel's withers; that sticks close to the camel's back, and wounds it; and in like manner a saddle of the kind called رَحْل, and a horse's saddle.
5 Whatever is slow, or tardy.
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