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كُهْبَةٌ ذ The colour which is also called قُهْبَة: (As, S, K:) or that which is called دُهْمَة: or dust-colour intermixed, or tinged over, with black: (K:) used absolutely, (TA,) or only with reference to camels, (K,) i. e., to their colours: (TA:) or a colour not purely red, but applied specially to a red colour: (AA, S:) or any colour inclining to that of dust: (Yaakoob, who does not particularize anything [to which it is applied] exclusively: TA): Az says, I have not heard كهبة as a colour of camels on the authority of any one but Lth; and perhaps it is used as a colour of clothes: (TA:) it is also said that ↓ كَهَبٌ signifies the colour of the buffalo. (IAar, cited by Az.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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