نَدٌّ
Root: ند
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نَدٌّ
(and
نِدٌّ , M, L,) A certain kind of perfume, well known, with which one fumigates: a certain wood with which one fumigates: or, as some say, i. q.
غَالِيَةٌ: or, as Z says, in the Rabeea el-Abrár, a compound of aloes-wood aromatized with musk and ambergris and
نان: or ambergris, عَنْبَرٌ: or عَبِيرٌ [i. e., either saffron, or a certain mixture of perfumes: so in the copy of the T used by the author of the TT, if correctly transcribed by him:] it is not Arabic: or is thought by IDrd to be not genuine Arabic: many of the lexicologists, however, hold it to be genuine Arabic; and it occurs in verses of old poets; but this does not prove that it is not an arabicized word.
def.2 نَدٌّ A high hill; a hill rising high into the sky: of the dial. of El-Yemen: a great hill (أَكَمَة) of clay or loam.
def.2 نَدٌّ A high hill; a hill rising high into the sky: of the dial. of El-Yemen: a great hill (أَكَمَة) of clay or loam.
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