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aer clarus valde
خوصي ḫūṣī (?)
nominalized adj. ḫwṣ – pale yellow (?) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. 279, Baily 393: Lucida que trahit ad aerem clarum valde ex forma Y
Kuni.: النير الذى يضرب إلى الحوض [var.: الخوصى] من صورة حرف الأُ
- 1 Ptol. Almag.
Ullmann 2007, 548. The Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.
According to Kunitzsch 1990, 91, fn. 20, the Latin translator probably misread al-ḫūṣī < Greek ὑπόκιρρος ‘pale yellow’ as Arabic al-ǧaww ‘air, atmosphere’.