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صَوْرٌ ذ Small palm-trees: (M, K:) or a collection of small palm-trees: (S, M, K:) a word having no proper sing.: (S, M:) [but see صَوْرَةٌ:] pl. صِيرَانٌ: (Sh, M, K:) and other trees: pl. as above. (Sh, TA.) ― -b2- Also The root of a palmtree, (M, K,) or of a palm-trunk. (M.) ― -b3- And The bank, or side, of a river or rivulet. (M, K.) ― -b4- And The side of the neck. (O, * K, * TA. [In the CK, واللِّيتِ is erroneously put for وَاللِّيتُ.]) ― -b5- And The forelock: so in the saying of a rájiz, “ كَأَنَّ عُرْفًا مَائِلًا مِنْ صَوْرِهِ
” [As though a mane inclining from his forelock]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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