أَحْسَبُ

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أَحْسَبُ , fem. حَسْبَآءُ, A camel of a colour in which are whiteness and redness and blackness: a man in the hair of whose head is [a reddish colour such as is termed] شُقْرَة: a man, and a camel, whose skin has become white by reason of disease, and whose hair is infected [and turned red] in consequence thereof, so that he has become white and red: accord. to Sh, that has no [distinct] colour; of whom, or of which, one says, I think so, and I think so. (TA. [The latter clause of this explanation (in the TA الذى يقال احسب كذا و احسب كذا) I have rendered conjecturally; supposing يقال to have been omitted by a copyist, after يقال,])
2 Also A leper.
3 And A mean, avaricious, man.

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