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أَغْبَسُ ذ Ash-coloured; (Mgh;) of a colour like that of ashes; (S;) of a dingy, or dusky, white; applied to a wolf: (S, K:) or it is an epithet applied to any wolf: or, applied to a wolf, light, or active, and greedy: fem. غَبْسَآءُ: (TA:) pl. غُبْسٌ. (K.) ― -b2- Applied to an ass, Black. (TA.) ― -b3- وَرْدٌ أَغْبَسُ, applied to a horse, [app., Of a dusky bay colour;] i. q. سَمَنْد; (Mgh, K;) what the Persians call by the latter term: (S, TA:) it is [a colour] desired by them. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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