Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سِحَايَةٌ

Root: سحو

Full Definition

سِحَايَةٌ , [in the CK سَحَايَةٌ, but it is] with kesr, Anything that is pared, or peeled, from a thing.
2 See also سِحَآءَةٌ, in three places.

def.2 Also The art, or craft, of making the kind of implement called مِسْحَاة: in this sense, likewise, with kesr, agreeably with analogy.


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