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قَاسِحٌ

Root: قسح

Full Definition

قَاسِحٌ A hard and strong spear.
2 A thick or coarse garment, syn. غَلِيظٌ.

def.2 Also, and قُسَاحٌ , and مَقْسُوحٌ , A man in a state of excitement, or frequently in a state of excitement, by vehement lust. ISd knows no way of accounting for the last of these epithets but by supposing it to be used for the act. part. n., like مَأْتِيًّا in the Kur, xix, 62, for آتِيًا.
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