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شَحْمَةٌ

Root: شحم

Full Definition

شَحْمَةٌ [n. un. of شَحْمٌ, which see throughout.

def.2 Also] A certain bird. (K. [For طَائِرٌ, which I regard as the right reading, in the CK, I find in other copies of the K الطَّائِرُ as an explanation of الشَّحْمَةُ.])

def.3 And A certain game of the children of the Arabs of the desert.
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