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مُجَالِحٌ

Root: جلح

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مُجَالِحٌ i. q. مُكَابِرٌ [Contending with another for superiority in greatness; &c.: see its verb, 3].
2 The lion.
3 A she-camel that yields milk abundantly in winter: or that crops the twigs of the dry trees in winter, in a year of drought, and becomes fat upon them, and so preserves her milk: pl. مَجَالِيحُ : or this is pl. of مُجَالِحٌ and مِجْلَاحٌ as epithets applied to a palm-tree and a she-camel that cares not for the want of rain. And مُجَالَحَةٌ A she-camel that eats the سَمُر and عُرْفُط, whether they have leaves upon them or not.
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