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دُخْنٌ داخ دخن دخنن A well-known kind of grain; (Msb;) i. q. جَاوَرْسٌ; (S;) [i. e.] the grain of the جاورس: (JK, M, K:) or a certain grain smaller than that, very smooth, cold, dry, and constipating: (M, K:) [a species of millet; the holcus saccharatus of Linn.; holcus dochna of Forskål; sorghum saccharatum of Delile: and the holcus spicatus of Linn.: and the panicum miliaceum of Linn.: (Delile's “ Flor. Aegypt. Illustr., ” no. 164: no. 57: and no. 79:)] n. un. with ة; signifying a single grain thereof. (Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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