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سحل

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سُحَالَةٌ ذ Filings of gold and of silver (S, K) and the like, (S,) or of anything. (TA.) ― -b2- The husks of wheat and of barley and the like (K, TA) when stripped off therefrom, and so of other grains, as rice and [the species of millet called] دُخْن: accord. to Az, the particles that fall off of rice and of millet (ذُرَة) in the process of bruising, or braying, or pounding, like bran. (TA.) ― -b3- And [hence,] (tropical:) The refuse, or lowest or basest or meanest sort, of a people or party of men. (IaAr, K, TA.)

Derived headwords

سُحَالَةٌ
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