خُفَّاشٌ
Root: خفش
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خُفَّاشٌ
The bat; syn. وَطْوَاطٌ; a certain flying thing; that flies by night: so called because it can scarcely see by day; or because of the smallness of its eyes and the weakness of its sight by day: its brain, if the hollows of the soles of the feet be anointed with it, excites the venereal passion: and if burnt, and used as a collyrium, it removes, or stops, whiteness of the eye, and sharpens the sight: its blood, if smeared upon the pubes of one who has nearly attained the age of puberty, prevents the growth of hair; as some say; but this is not true: and if the pudendum of her who has difficulty in bringing forth, be rubbed gently with its gall-bladder, she brings forth immediately: the pl. is خَفَافِيشُ. [See also خُشَّافٌ.]
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