Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَسْعَفُ

Root: سعف

Full Definition

أَسْعَفُ A camel having the disease termed سَعَفٌ : fem. سَعْفَآءُ, applied to a she-camel: A'Obeyd mentions only the fem. epithet.
2 Also A horse white, or hoary, in the forelock, when there is some other colour in it, different from the white: when the whole of it is white, he is termed أَصْبَغُ: so in the “ Book of Horses ” by AO.


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