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سِلِّجَانٌ

Root: سلج

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سِلِّجَانٌ The حُلْقُوم [properly the windpipe, but here app. meaning the gullet: see 5]. One says, رَمَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ فِى سِلِّجَانِهِ [May God smite him, or afflict him, in his سلّجان].
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