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Ibn Hisham Al-Lakhmi; almadkhal 'iilaa taqwim allisan (Introduction to tongue straightening) (1181AD)

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Taken from: المدخل إلى تقويم اللسان [اللخمي، ابن هشام] https://shamela.ws/book/31370/289

They say to some animals: Giraffe. The correct word is: giraffe, with fatha (1), and its plural is giraffes and giraffes. Ibn Qutaybah (2) claimed that a she-camel from an Abyssinian camel is driven by hyenas in the country of Abyssinia and produces a child created between the she-camel and a hyena. If it is a male, he drives the wild cow and produces a giraffe, but it is called a giraffe, because it is from a group, and giraffe: a group of People and others.