دُسْمَةٌ
Root: دسم
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دُسْمَةٌ
A thing with which a hole in a skin for water or milk is stopped up.
def.2 Blackness; [and] so دَيْسَمٌ : or dust-colour inclining to blackness. Hence the Abyssinian is called أَبُو دُسْمَةٍ. See also أُمُّ دَسْمَة, above.
def.3 Applied to a man,
def.2 Blackness; [and] so دَيْسَمٌ : or dust-colour inclining to blackness. Hence the Abyssinian is called أَبُو دُسْمَةٍ. See also أُمُّ دَسْمَة, above.
def.3 Applied to a man,
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