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صيص

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

صِيصَاآءٌ ذ : see صِيصٌ. [It is also said to signify] Dates without stones. (L in art. لقح.) ― -b2- Also The pips of a colocynth that have no hearts, (AHn, S, K,) being husks only; (AHn;) to which a poet likens ticks that have been long left in a desolate place: (AHn, S: *) and so, accord. to some, of anything, such as the melon and the cucumber and the like. (AHn.)

Derived headwords

صِيصَاآءٌ
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