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مِلْحَسٌ

Root: لحس

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مِلْحَسٌ Greedy; as also and and مُلْحِسٌ : and one who takes everything that he can. or a greedy man, who takes everything that he can: one who takes everything that appears to him: [originally, a lick-dish:] and [in like manner] لَحُوسٌ a man who seeks after sweets, like the fly.
2 Also, Courageous: as though an eater of everything that rose up to him.
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