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سَكْبِينَجٌ

Root: سكبينج

Full Definition

سَكْبِينَجٌ an arabicized word [from the Pers. سَكْبِينَهٌ]; [Sagapenum;] a certain medicine, well-known; the gum of a certain tree in Persia, [supposed to be the ferula Persica,] in which is no useful property, but only in its gum: some say that there is a sort of قِنَّة [or galbanum] that changes from its original state and becomes سكبينج.
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