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خَامٌ خام A skin, or hide, untanned: or not tanned much, or thoroughly: and a كِرْبَاس [or coarse garment or piece of cloth, or garment or piece of cloth of white cotton,] unwashed: (K:) a Persian word, (TA,) arabicized. (K.) Unbleached cloth. (Msb, in art. خوم.) Paper that is polished, [app. a mistake for not polished,] or to be polished. (TA.) [Crude, or raw; applied in this sense to silk, contr. of مَطْبُوخٌ; and to sugar, &c.: anything unprepared for use.] Honey of dates (دِبْس) untouched by fire: (AHn, T:) which is the best thereof. (TA.) -A2- See also خَامَة.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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