Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

تِمْسَاحٌ

Root: مسح

Full Definition

تِمْسَاحٌ , and تِمْسَحٌ , the latter app. a contraction of the former, [The crocodile]; a well-known aquatic animal, a creature like the tortoise, of great size, found in the Nile of Egypt and in the river Mihrán, which is the river of Es-Sind; or [rather] resembling the وَرَل about five cubits long, and less; that seizes men and oxen, and dives into the water with them and devours them: pl. of the former تَمَاسِيحٌ, and of the latter تَمَاسِحُ.


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