سِقَابٌ
Root: سقب
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سِقَابٌ
A bit of cotton which a woman afflicted by the death of her husband, in the Time of Ignorance, after shaving her head, and scratching her face, used to make red with her blood, i. e. her own blood, and put upon her head, making its extremity to protrude from a hole, or rent, of her
قِنَاعِ [or head-covering], in order that people might know her to be so afflicted.
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