مَحَمَّةٌ
Root: حم
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مَحَمَّةٌ
, applied to food [&c.], Any cause of fever; or a thing from the eating of which one is affected with fever: such, for instance, the eating of fresh ripe dates is said to be. And أَرْضٌ مَحَمَّةٌ and
, mentioned by AAF, but not known by the lexicologists except as agreeable with analogy, [see its verb, 4,] A land in which is fever: or in which is much fever.
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