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أَلْعَسُ ذ Having a blackness, deemed beautiful, in the lip: fem. لَعْسَآءُ: pl. لُعْسٌ: (K:) the pl., applied to girls and to women, signifies [as above; or] having a blackness in their lips; (TA;) or having lips of a colour inclining a little to blackness, which is deemed beautiful: (S:) the fem. is also applied to a lip, (شَفَة,) signifying of a colour inclining a little to blackness, which is deemed beautiful; (S;) or having a blackness, deemed beautiful; and in like manner the pl. to lips: (A:) and the masc. to the external skin, (بَشَر); so applied by El-'Ajjáj: (TA:) and the fem. to a girl, as signifying having in her complexion the least degree of blackness, and tinged with redness, (A, K, TA,) not of a clear hue: (TA:) and the pl. to girls, as signifying having a blackness in their complexions. (Az, TA.) ― -b2- You also say, (S, K,) sometimes, (S,) نَبَاتٌ أَلْعَسُ, meaning Abundant and dense herbage; (S, K;) because such inclines to blackness. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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