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نَشٌّ ذ The half of an أُوقِيَّة [or ounce]; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K;) i. e., twenty dirhems; (S, Msb, K;) the اوقيّة being forty dirhems; (S, Msb;) and five dirhems being called نَوَاةٌ: (S:) or the weight of a date-stone (نواة) of gold: or the weight of five dirhems: or the quarter of an اوقيّة: (TA:) and the half of anything; (IAar, Sh, Az, Mgh, Msb;) as, for instance, of a dirhem, and of a cake of bread. (IAar, Sh, Az, Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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