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Zakkum

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A tree growing in the Muhammadan hell, from which a food is prepared for the damned of inexpressible bitterness.

“How will it be for him whose food is Zakkum?”—The Koran.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Yʹvetoʹt (pron. Eve-tó)
Zabian
Zacocia
Zadkiel
Zadoc
Zakarija ibn Muhammed
Zakkum
Zal
Zanēs
Zanoni
Zany
Zanny
Zel
Zelica
Zelotes
Zem
Zenchis Khan [great chief]

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