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حوص

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

حَوَصٌ حوص Narrowness, or contraction, of the outer angle of the eye, (S, Msb, and so in some copies of the K,) or eyes, (as in some copies of the K and in the TA,) as though they were sewed up; (TA;) or one of them: (K:) or narrowness, or contraction, of one of the eyes, (Lth, S, Mgh, TA,) exclusively of the other: (Lth, Mgh, TA:) or, as Az says, accord. to all of them, narrowness, or contraction, in both of the eyes: (Mgh, TA:) or in the slit of the eye. (TA.) ― -b2- See also أَحْوَصُ.

Derived headwords

حَوَصٌ
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