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نِحَاسٌ

Root: نحس

Full Definition

نِحَاسٌ and نُحَاسٌ and نَحَاسٌ Nature; natural, or native, disposition or temper or other quality or property: and origin: or that to which the origin of a thing reaches. You say, فُلَانٌ كَرِيمُ النِّحَاسِ, and , Such a one is generous of nature, &c., and origin.

def.2 See also نُحَاسٌ, in two places.
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