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بُلْعُومٌ بلعوم and ↓ بُلْعُمٌ ; (Msb, and S and K in art. بلعم;) the latter a contraction of the former; the م augmentative; (Msb;) The place of passage of the food in the حَلْق; (S, Msb, K, TA;) the gullet, or œsophagus; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ مَبْلَعٌ : (TA:) or this last, i. q. حَلْقٌ [which is properly the fauces; but by a synecdoche, the throat, or gullet]. (K.) [See an ex. voce سُرْمٌ.] -A2- Also, the first, A torrent, in ground such as is termed قُفّ, entering into the earth. (AHn, and K in art. بلعم.) -A3- And The whiteness that is upon the lip of the ass, (K in art. بلعم,) at the extremity of the mouth- (TA in that art.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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