مشيمة

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Arabic

Root
ش ي م (š y m)
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Pronunciation

Noun

مَشِيمَة (mašīmaf (plural مَشَايِم (mašāyim)) (countable)

  1. a sac that encloses the embryo or the fetus during gestation, the amnion or the chorion, the fetal membrane
    Synonyms: كِيس (kīs), سَلَى (salā), حَوْرَان (ḥawrān), قَمِيص (qamīṣ)
  2. (Modern Standard Arabic) the round or disk-shaped organ that grows during pregnancy in the wombs of the females of many species of child-bearing mammals (placental mammals) so as to transfer nutrients to the child, the placenta

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References

  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “مشيمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1635
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “مشيمة”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 690