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ند

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

نَدٌّ ذ (and ↓ نِدٌّ, M, L,) A certain kind of perfume, (S, M, L, K,) well known, (K,) with which one fumigates: (Lth, M, L:) a certain wood with which one fumigates: (Msb:) or, as some say, i. q. غَالِيَةٌ: or, as Z says, in the Rabeea el-Abrár, a compound of aloes-wood aromatized with musk and ambergris and نان: (TA:) or (accord. to Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, T, L) ambergris, عَنْبَرٌ: (T, L:) or عَبِيرٌ [i. e., either saffron, or a certain mixture of perfumes: so in the copy of the T used by the author of the TT, if correctly transcribed by him:] it is not Arabic: (S:) or is thought by IDrd to be not genuine Arabic: (M, L,) many of the lexicologists, however, hold it to be genuine Arabic; and it occurs in verses of old poets; (MF;) but this does not prove that it is not an arabicized word. (TA.) -A2- نَدٌّ A high hill; (K;) a hill rising high into the sky: (S, L:) of the dial. of El-Yemen: (L:) a great hill (أَكَمَة) of clay or loam. (K.)

Derived headwords

نَدٌّ
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