سَعْتَرٌ
Root: سعتر
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سَعْتَرٌ
A certain plant, of the kind called
بُقُول, well known; and applied also to the grain, or seed, thereof: [a species of origanum, or majoram: so in the present day; and so says Golius, as on the authority of Ibn-Beytár, “ origani species, sc. consonante voce, satureia, Hisp. axedrea: ” accord. to Forskål, “ thymus serpyllum: ”] some write the word in books of medicine with ص, in order that [when written without the diacritical points] it may not be confounded with شَعِيرٌ: in the T, it is with ص, on the authority of AA, only; and thus in the book of Lth: in the Jámi' of ElGhooree, with س and ص: or the س is changed into ص in the dial. of Bel'ambar [or Benu-l-'Ambar]; and some pronounced it only with ص: accord. to Abu-l-'Alà, the vulgar pronounce it with س, and the approved word is with ص. [In the present day, it is also written with ز.]
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