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كِنْدَأْوٌ

Root: كدأ

Full Definition

كِنْدَأْوٌ dial. form of كِنْتَأْوٌ.
2 A gross, or bulky, camel. [But perhaps جمل is here put by a mistake of a copyist in the K for حبل, and the meaning is a thick rope; for كنتأو is said to signify thick, as an epithet applied to a rope: or the reverse may be the case in the explanation of the latter word.] It occurs again in art. كند.
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