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مُجْمِعٌ

Root: جمع

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مُجْمِعٌ A year of dearth, drought, sterility, or unfruitfulness: because it is an occasion of people's collecting together in the place where herbage, or plenty, is found. And فَلَاةٌ مُجْمِعَةٌ, like مُحْسِنَةٌ; [in Gol. Lex., erroneously, مُجْمَعَةٌ;] and , like مُحَدِّثَةٌ; A desert in which people collect themselves together, not separating themselves, from fear of losing their way, or perishing, and the like; as though the desert itself collected them. And أَرْضٌ مُجْمِعَةٌ, like مُحْسِنَةٌ, A land of dearth, drought, sterility, or unfruitfulness, wherein the camels upon which people journey are not dispersed to pasture.
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