Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سَاسَمٌ

سَاسَمٌ, without ء, (AḤát, TA,) A kind of tree, of which arrows are made: (AḤát, M:) a kind of black tree: (Ṣ, Ḳ:) or a kind of tree (AḤn, M, Ḳ) of the mountains, of the [sort termed] عُتُق, (AḤn, M,) of which bows are made: (AḤn, M, Ḳ:) or, (Ḳ,) as some assert, (AḤn, M,) the [tree called] آبِنُوس [i. e. ebony]: (AḤn, M, Ḳ:) or, (Ḳ,) as others assert, (AḤn, M,) the [tree called] شِيز: (AḤn, M, Ḳ: [in some copies of the Ḳ شِيزَى, which means the same:]) but neither of these two is suitable for bows. (AḤn, M.)


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