اجزرهُ

Form: 4

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اجزرهُIV , or اجزر القَوْمَ, He gave to him, or to the people, a sheep or a goat, for him, or for them, to slaughter; meaning a ewe or a ram or a she-goat; or a sheep, or goat, fit for slaughter: and أَجْزَرْتُهُ شَاةً I gave to him a ewe or a ram or a she-goat, and he slaughtered it: and أَجْزَرْتُكَ بَعِيرًا, or شَاةً, I gave to thee a camel, or a sheep or goat, that thou mightest slaughter it: [but] accord. to ISk, one does not say أَجْزَرْتُهُمْ نَاقَةً, because a she-camel is fit for other purposes than that of slaughter: and accord. to some, one should not say اجزرهُ جَزُورًا, but اجزرهُ جَزَرَةً.

def.2 اجزر He attained to the fit time for his being slaughtered.
2 اجزر النَّخْلُ The palm-trees attained to the fit time for the cutting off of the fruit.
3 [And hence,] اجزر الشَيْخُ The old man attained to the fit time for his dying; being aged, and near to his perishing; like as the palm-tree attains to the fit time for having its fruit cut off. Youths used to say to an old man أَجْزَرْتَ يَا شَيْخُ, meaning, Thou hast attained to the fit time for thy dying, O old man: and he would say, أَىْ بَنِىَّ وَتُحْتَضَرُونَ, i. e., “ [O my sons, and] ye shall die youths: ” but accord. to one way of relation, it is أَجْزَزْتَ; from أَجَزَّ البُرُّ “ the wheat attained to the proper time for being out. ”
4 اجزر القَوْمُ The people attained to the fit time for the cutting off of the fruit of the palm-trees.

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