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تَنْبِيتٌ

Root: نبت

Full Definition

تَنْبِيتٌ and , the latter so written, not as being so originally, but for the sake of agreement in sound [with respect to the first and second vowels], a subst., signifying What grows or germinates, of slender trees, [or shrubs,] and large: ex., بَيْدَآءُ لَمْ يَنْبُتْ بِهَا تَنْبِيتُ [A desert in which there grew not aught of shrubs or of large trees]: young shoots of palmtrees: the prickles and branches that are cut off from a palm-tree, to lighten it.
2 Pieces of the hump of a camel.
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