القَفْرُ

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القَفْرُ Jews-pitch, i. e. asphaltum; also called mumia, and in Arabic مُومِيَا: see De Sacy's Abd-allatif, p. 273: and see تِرْيَاقٌ and حُمَرٌ.

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