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خَلَنْجٌ خلنج a Persian word, arabicized, (S,) A kind of tree, (S, K,) of the wood of which vessels are made: (TA:) or any [bowl of the kinds called] جَفْنَة and صَحْفَة, or other vessel, made of wood having variegated streaks: (L:) pl. خَلَانِجُ. (S, K.) The word is mentioned [in the S and K in art. خلج; but] in the L and some other lexicons in a separate art., because all the letters of a word which is not Arabic are regarded as radical. (MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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