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غِمْدٌ ذ (S, L, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ غُمُدَّانٌ , (L, K,) but the latter is not of established authority, (IDrd,) of a sword, (S, L, Msb, K,) and the like, (Msb,) The scabbard, or sheath; [this is well known to be the correct meaning; it is shown to be so in the S, voce قِرَابٌ; and is the meaning obtaining in the present day;] syn. غِلَافٌ, (S, O,) or جَفْنٌ: (L, K:) [both of these words have the signification mentioned above; but not that only; for غلاف has a wider application; and it is said in the S, voce قِرَابٌ, that the جفن of a sword is a case, or receptacle, in which is (put) the sword together with its غِمْد and suspensory belt or cord:] the pl. is أَغْمَادٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (O, Msb, K) and غُمْدَانٌ, (O,) or غُمُودٌ. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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