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مَجْفَرَةٌ

Root: جفر

Full Definition

مَجْفَرَةٌ and مَجْفَرٌ An impediment to venery; and a cause of diminishing the seminal fluid: applied to food: and such is fasting said to be; and the sun, i. e., sitting in the sun; and such, also, the sleeping between daybreak and sunrise, or in the first part of the day.


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