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صِنَابِىٌّ

Root: صنب

Full Definition

صِنَابِىٌّ , applied to a horse or similar beast, or to a hackney, and to a camel, Of a colour between redness and yellowness, with abundance of hair, and of fur: or of a bay, or dark bay, or brown, colour; syn. كُمَيْتٌ: or of a sorrel colour; syn. أَشْقَرُ: or of this last colour having some white hairs intermixed therewith: so called because his colour resembles the sauce termed صِنَاب: صِنَابِىٌّ being a rel. noun from صِنَابٌ.
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