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قَاضِبٌ

Root: قضب

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قَاضِبٌ and قَضِيبٌ and قَضَّابٌ and قَضَّابَةٌ and مِقْضَبٌ , as epithets applied to a sword, Very sharp, or sharply-cutting: or the first signifies [simply] cutting, or sharp: [and the last but one is doubly intensive, signifying very sharply-cutting:] the pl. is قَوَاضِبُ and [of the second] قُضُبٌ.
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