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قَانِئٌ

Root: قنأ

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قَانِئٌ A thing intensely red. See an ex. of the fem. قَانِئَةٌ, applied to the sun, by a poet who was drinking, or watering, with a party, and was prevented by them from taking his share of the water until the sun became red.
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