Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سكبج سكبينج سكت


سَكْبِينَجٌ

سَكْبِينَجٌ an arabicized word [from the Pers. سَكْبِينَهٌ]; (O;) [Sagapenum;] a certain medicine, (O, Ḳ,) well-known; (Ḳ;) the gum of a certain tree (O, TA) in Persia, (TA,) [supposed to be the ferula Persica,] in which is no useful property, but only in its gum: some say that there is a sort of قِنَّة [or galbanum] that changes from its original state and becomes سكبينج. (O.)


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