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رَقَّاصَةٌ

Root: رقص

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رَقَّاصَةٌ [A female dancer].
2 A certain game of the Arabs.

def.2 أَرْضٌ رَقَّاصَةٌ Land that does not give growth to anything, though rained upon.
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