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Art/Literary - Linguistics / Grammar | | English term or phrase: nugget (lump of gold) | Greetings,
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This site claims that there is a word ذهبة which means “nugget, lump of gold”, but I find no evidence for that in any dictionary. Please see under “1.4.1 Singulatives”.
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| | قطعة من الذهب | Explanation:
nugget
nugget (nùg´ît) noun
1.A small, solid lump, especially of gold.
2.A small compact portion or unit: nuggets of information.
[Perhaps diminutive of English dialectal nug, lump.]
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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it is a diminutive adjective, as we colloqually say
حتة دهب أو حتة صيغة |
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