An obscure or possibly dialectal term whose exact meaning and origin are unclear; potentially a variant of another word or a regional variant.
Etymology uncertain; may be a rare variant, transliteration, or dialectal form from an Islamic or Middle Eastern language source.
This is one of those dictionary entries that reminds us how much language knowledge has been lost—some words appear only once or twice in all recorded texts!
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