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تَنْوُاطٌ

Root: نوط

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تَنْوُاطٌ What is hung from, or upon, the [kind of vehicle called] هَوْدَجٌ, for ornament: or the implements, or apparatus, &c., that are hung upon a horse.
2 And hence, Adventives; or persons who introduce themselves among a people, and live among them, not being of their race; and persons whose fathers are free men, or Arabs, and whose mothers are slaves, and who have become conjoined with the genuine and pure Arabs, not being of them: for ذُو التَّنْوَاطِ; [or ذَوُو التَّنْوَاطِ;] the latter of these two words being originally an Verbal.Noun: or it may be an Verbal.Noun used as an epithet. [See also مَنُوطٌ.]
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