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مُعَمَّمٌ

Root: عم

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مُعَمَّمٌ [Attired with a turban.
2 And hence, Made a chief or lord over others; or] a chief, or lord, who is invested with the office of ordering the affairs of a people and to whom the commonalty have recourse.
3 Applied to a horse, and other than a horse, White in the ears and the place of growth of the forelock and what is around this, exclusively of other parts: or white in the هَامَة [or upper part of the head], exclusively of the neck: or white in the forelock so that the whiteness extends to the place of its growth. And شَاةٌ مُعَمَّمَةٌ A sheep, or goat, having a whiteness in the هَامَة.
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