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نفاثة

Root: نفث

3 entries for this word

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Entry 1

نفاثة nufāta saliva, spittle

Entry 2

نفاثة (طائرة) naffāta jet plane

Entry 3

نفاثة naffāta pl. -āt woman who spits on the knots (in exercising a form of Arabian witchcraft in which women tie knots in a cord and spit upon them with an imprecation; Kor. 113,4); sorceress

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