مِجْلَدٌ

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مِجْلَدٌ A piece of skin which a wailing woman holds in her hand, and with which she slaps her face or her cheek: pl. مَجَالِيدُ; or, as ISd thinks, this is pl. of مِجْلَادٌ [as syn. with مِجْلَدٌ], for مِفْعَلٌ and مِفْعَالٌ are often interchangeable as measures of words of this kind.

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