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جلد

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

مِجْلَدٌ مجلد A piece of skin which a wailing woman holds in her hand, and with which she slaps (S, K) her face (S) or her cheek: (K:) pl. مَجَالِيدُ; (Kr, K;) or, as ISd thinks, this is pl. of ↓ مِجْلَادٌ [as syn. with مِجْلَدٌ], for مِفْعَلٌ and مِفْعَالٌ are often interchangeable as measures of words of this kind. (TA.)

Derived headwords

مِجْلَدٌ
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