Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/2020/June 13

Foreign word of the day  in Arabic
أَشْهَل • (ʾašhal) adjective (obsolete; said of eyes; also used in reference to mountains and wolves with the meaning "dust-coloured inclining to whiteness") The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include: glaucous or subglaucous; having "a mixture of colours" (usually blue or red with black), variegated (likely from a confusion with أَشْكَل (ʔaškal) although Abu Mansur al-Azhari considered them to be synonyms): reddy-brown, dark-brown; bluish-black, deep blue; of "lighter shades of brown" or amber, tawny, or fawn (likely from a confusion with أَشْعَل (ʔašʕal)).
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