أَعْرَجُ
Root: عرج
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2 الأَعْرَجُ is an appellation of The crow; [and] so الأَعْوَرُ الأَعْرَجُ: because of its hopping, or leaping in going, as though shackled.
3 And العَرْجَآءُ is an appellation of The female hyena: pl. عُرْجٌ: the male is not called أَعْرَجُ. And عُرْجُ , determinate, and imperfectly decl., means The female hyenas, so called as though they were a قَبِيلَة [or tribe]; and so عُرَاجُ , likewise determinate, and imperfectly decl.: or, accord. to IAar, in the phrase أَبْنَآءُ in a verse of Aboo-Muk'it ElAsadee, the poet makes the latter word, which is a pl., imperfectly decl. because he means التَّوْحِيد وَالعُرْجَة; as though he regarded it as a sing. [proper] name: (L: [i. e., accord. to Ibr D, because he uses عُرْجَ as a sing. proper name, curtailed by poetic license from العُرْجَة: if so, this last word seems here to signify a personification of lameness:]) and accord. to him , one says هٰذِهِ عُرَاجُ , meaning This is the female hyena [not hyenas]; the latter word imperfectly decl.
4 الأَعْرَجُ is also an appellation of A certain deaf, malignant serpent. [See also the next paragraph.]
5 And العُرْجُ signifies Three nights of the first part of the lunar month: [perhaps in allusion to the curved aspect of the moon; though on this ground it might also be applied to three nights of the last part:] mentioned on the authority of Th.
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