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بِرَايَةٌ

Root: برى

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بِرَايَةٌ a quasi-Verbal.Noun of 1 in the first of the senses assigned to it above: as when it is said that a reed for writing is not called a قَلَم except after the براية [i. e. the shaping, or paring].
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