شُهْبَةٌ

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شُهْبَةٌ A [gray] colour in which whiteness predominates over blackness, or in which whiteness is interrupted by blackness; as also شَهَبٌ ; which latter is [properly] an Verbal.Noun, of شَهِبَ: or whiteness mixed with blackness: not pure whiteness, as some have imagined it to be. And in horses, A colour in which the main hue is interrupted by a hoariness, or by some white hairs, whether the horse be [in his general colour] كُمَيْت or أَشْقَر or أَدْهَم.

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