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10 استرشح البُهْمَى ذ (assumed tropical:) The [barley-grass termed] بُهْمَى grew tall. (K.) -A2- يَسْتَرْشِحُونَ البُهْمَى, so in most of the copies of the K, (TA,) [and so in the L,] (assumed tropical:) They foster the بهمى, in order that it may grow large: (L, K:) in some of the copies of the K البَهْمَ [i. e. the lambs, or kids, &c.]: (TA:) the place thereof is termed ↓ مُسْتَرْشَحٌ : (K:) or البُهُمَى ↓ مُسْتَرْشَحُ signifies the place, or tract of ground, that fosters the بهمى. (L.) And يسترشحون البَقْلَ, so in all the copies of the K but some in which is found النَّفَلَ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) They wait for the herbs, or leguminous plants, (or the plants called نفل,) to grow tall, in order that-they may pasture thereon. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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