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وَعْبٌ

Root: وعب

Full Definition

وَعْبٌ A wide road. You say, طَرِيقٌ وَعْبٌ: and the pl. is وِعَابٌ.
2 وِعَابٌ Wide places in a land. Correctly, it is pl. of وَعْبٌ; but in the Moajam [el-Buldán] it is made a proper name of certain places.
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