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نَزَّاعٌ

Root: نزع

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نَزَّاعٌ Dragging much, or forcibly: see Kur, lxx. 16.
2 العرْقُ نَزَّاعٌ is probably similar to العِرْقُ دسَّاسٌ, and means The radical, or ancestral, or hereditary, quality is wont to return to its usual possessor: or it may mean, is wont to draw.
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