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كهل

8 اِكْتَهَلَ ذ , said of a plant, It became tall and full-grown: (TA:) or it became of its full height, and blossomed: (S:) see زَاخِرٌ. كَهْلٌ ذ Of middle age; or between that age and the period when his hair has become intermixed with heaviness. See شَبَابٌ; and شَيْخٌ and غُلَامٌ. كُهُولَةٌ ذ : see شَبَابٌ. كَاهِلٌ ذ [The withers of a horse, &c.] i. q. حَارِكٌ: or the anterior portion of the upper part of the back, next the neck, which is the upper third part, containing six vertebra: or the part between the two shoulder-blades: or the part where the neck is joined to the back how: [the base of the neck: see ثَبَجٌ]. (K.) كِهَانَةٌ ذ Divination: soothsaying. (K, &c.) كَاهِنٌ ذ : see عَرَّافٌ and عَائِفٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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