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مَخْشَفٌ

Root: خشف

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مَخْشَفٌ A place of ice; [an icehouse;] this is the meaning of the term by which Lth explains it, namely, يَخَدَان, [or يَخْدَانْ,] which is Persian, and which the author of the L has mistranscribed نَجْرَان, adding thereto الذى يجرى عليه الباب.
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