بَعُوضٌ
Root: بعض
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بَعُوضٌ
[Gnats, or musquitoes;] i. q.
بَقَّ [which signifies both gnats, or musquitoes, (called in Egypt نَامُوس,) and also bugs]: n. un. with ة: or pl. of بَعُوضَةٌ, which signifies i. q.
بَقَّةٌ. A poet speaks of the humming of the بعوض of the water. The author of the K says, in the B, that the word is taken from بَعْضٌ, because of the smallness of the body of the بعوضة in comparison with other living things. You say, كَلَّفَنِى مُخَّ البَعُوضِ
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