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السُّكَيْنِيَّةُ

Root: سكن

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السُّكَيْنِيَّةُ [The hair over the forehead that is cut with a straight, or even, edge, or with two such edges one above the other, so as to form a kind of border, after the fashion of Sukeyneh,] is so called in relation to Sukeyneh the daughter of El-Hoseyn.
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