أَبْجَرُ

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أَبْجَرُ A man having his navel, or the part remaining of the navel-string after its having been cut, protruding, and elevated, and hard, and thick at the base, and fleshy at the neck, or slender part, with wind remaining in the enlarged part: fem. بَجْرَآءُ: pl. بُجْرٌ and بُجْرَانٌ.
2 Large in the belly: pl. as above: and بَاجِرٌ signifies the same: or this latter, having a swollen, or an inflated, belly: or having a large belly and a protruding navel: and its pl. is بَجَرَةٌ, occurring in a trad., in which the tribe of Kureysh are described as أَشِحَّةٌ بَجَرَةٌ: or بجرة may here mean hoarders and acquirers of wealth.
3 One says also حَقِيبَةٌ بَجْرَآءُ A full [receptacle of the kind called] حقيبة; and صُرَرٌ بُجْرٌ full purses; and كِيسٌ أَعْجَزُ [or أَعْجَرُ?]: but they did not say, حَقِيبَةٌ عَجْزَآءُ [or عَجْرَآءُ?]; nor كِيسٌ أَبْجَرُ; though analogy does not disagree to it: it is from بُجْرٌ signifying “prominence in the belly.”
4 And أَرْضٌ بَجْرَآءُ Ground, or land, that is elevated, and hard.
5 أَبْجَرُ also signifies The rope of a ship; because of its greatness in relation to ropes in general.

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