حُسْبَةٌ

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حُسْبَةٌ , in a camel, A colour in which are whiteness and redness and blackness: in a man, [a reddish colour such as is termed] شُقْرَة in the hair of the head: and also in a man, and in a camel, whiteness and redness produced by a whiteness of the skin arising from disease and infecting the hair [so as to turn it red]: accord. to IAar, blackness inclining to redness.
2 Also Leprosy.

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