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عبد
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaعَبْدَلِّىٌّ ذ and عَبْدَلَّاوِىٌّ [both post-classical, the latter, which is the more common, said by Forskål to be an appellation of the Cucumis chate, which is app. from قِثَّاآء, denoting several species of cucumber; but it is] a sort of melon, [ abounding in Egypt, of little flavour, eaten with sugar, ] said to be thus called in relation to 'AbdAllah Ibn-Táhir, a governor of Egypt on the part of El-Ma-moon. ('Abd-El-Lateef: see pp. 52 and 54 of the Ar. text, and pp. 34 and 35, and 125-7, of De Sacy's Transl. and Notes: and see also Forskål's Flora Ægypt. Arab. pp. lxxvi. and 168.) [See also عَجُورٌ.]
Derived headwords
عَبْدَلِّىٌّ
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