غَمَّاسَةٌ
Root: غمس
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غَمَّاسَةٌ
[A bird of the kind termed divers, or plungeons: thus called in the present day; expl. by Golius and Freytag as meaning “ mergus avis; ”] a certain aquatic bird, that dives, or plunges, much: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.]
غَمَّاسٌ : (K, TA: [in the CK, erroneously, غُمّاسٌ:]) IDrd says, the
is a wellknown bird.
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