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صَقِيعٌ

Root: صقع

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صَقِيعٌ The جَلِيد [i. e. hoar-frost, or rime,] that nips, or blasts, (lit. burns, [see أَحْرَقَ,]) the plants, or herbage; what falls from the sky in the night, resembling snow.

def.2 Also A species of زُنْبُور [or hornet]: so says AHát, as having been heard by him from a man of Et-Táïf.
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