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شَامِسٌ

Root: شمس

Full Definition

شَامِسٌ A sunny, or sunshiny, day; a day having sun, or sunshine: or having sun, or sunshine, all the daytime: or clear; unobscured: and in like manner, and , a clear, cloudless, day: and شَامِسٌ also signifies intensely hot: and مُشْمِسٌ , applied to a day, signifies the same as شَامِسٌ; and so مَشْمُوسٌ .

def.2 A neck having [ornaments of the kind called] شُمُوس [pl. of شَمْسٌ, q. v.]: a possessive epithet.

def.3 See also شَمُوسٌ, in two places.
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