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عَلْقَةٌ

Root: علق

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عَلْقَةٌ A جَذْبَة [meaning fray, as being a kind of strain,] that is occasioned in a garment and other [similar] thing when one passes by a thorn or a tree. (TA. [See also عَلْقٌ.])
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