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خَرَفٌ

Root: خرف

Full Definition

خَرَفٌ A corrupt, an unsound, or a disordered, state of the intellect; dotage. (S. [See خَرِفَ, of which it is the Verbal.Noun])

def.2 The [bad sort of] dates called شِيص.
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