العَرْتَبَةُ
Root: عرتب
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العَرْتَبَةُ
a dial. var. of العَرْتَمَةُ; The nose: or the soft, or pliable, part thereof: or the [depression termed] دَائِرَة
beneath the nose, in [or above] the middle of the lip, i. e., of the upper lip, next the nose: or the extremity of the partition between the nostrils: [J says,] I asked an Arab of the desert, of the tribe of Asad, whereupon he put his finger upon the extremity of the partition between his nostrils.
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