سَمَعْمَعٌ
Root: سمع
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سَمَعْمَعٌ
(of the measure فَعَلْعَلٌ, S) Small in the head, and in the body; for او اللِّحْيَةِ in the K is a mistranscription for وَالجُثَّةِ: cunning, or very cunning: light of flesh, quick in work, wicked, and clever: or [simply] light and quick: and applied as an epithet to a wolf.
2 Also A woman that grins and frowns in thy face when thou enterest, and wails after thee when thou goest forth.
3 And A tall and slender man: fem. in this sense with ة.
4 And A wicked, deceitful, or crafty, devil.
2 Also A woman that grins and frowns in thy face when thou enterest, and wails after thee when thou goest forth.
3 And A tall and slender man: fem. in this sense with ة.
4 And A wicked, deceitful, or crafty, devil.
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