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أَدْبَسُ

Root: دبس

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أَدْبَسُ A bird, and a horse, and a sheep, or goat, or a goat, [brown; or] of a colour between black and red; or of a red colour tinged, or intermixed, with blackness: or, accord. to Hoseyn Ibn-'Abd-Allah ElIsbahánee, in his book on strange pigeons, of a green colour, or a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, in which are redness and blackness: fem. دَبْسَآءُ: pl. دُبْسٌ.
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