أَعْجَبُ
Root: عجب
Full Definition
أَعْجَبُ
[More, and most, wonderful or admirable or pleasing].
2 [And the fem.] عَجْبَآءُ signifies A female wondered at for her beauty: and also, for her ugliness.
def.2 Also, i. e. the former, A thick, or big, or coarse, camel. And so the fem. applied to a she-camel: or, so applied, thick in the عَجْب [or root, &c.,] of the tail: or whereof the hinder part, or the upper portion of that part, is narrow, and whereof the جَاعِرَتَانِ [q. v.] are prominent: the kind of make thus particularized is ugly.
2 [And the fem.] عَجْبَآءُ signifies A female wondered at for her beauty: and also, for her ugliness.
def.2 Also, i. e. the former, A thick, or big, or coarse, camel. And so the fem. applied to a she-camel: or, so applied, thick in the عَجْب [or root, &c.,] of the tail: or whereof the hinder part, or the upper portion of that part, is narrow, and whereof the جَاعِرَتَانِ [q. v.] are prominent: the kind of make thus particularized is ugly.
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