بَصَّاصٌ
Root: بص
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بَصَّاصٌ
[Shining, or glistening: or rather, shining, or glistening, much].
2 [Hence,] البَصَّاصَةُ The eye: an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: said to be so called because it shines, or glistens.
3 [And hence بَصَّاصٌ is applied in the present day to An officer employed as an inspector by a police-magistrate.]
2 [Hence,] البَصَّاصَةُ The eye: an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: said to be so called because it shines, or glistens.
3 [And hence بَصَّاصٌ is applied in the present day to An officer employed as an inspector by a police-magistrate.]
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