تَنْجِيسٌ
Root: نجس
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تَنْجِيسٌ
The name of a thing, either something unclean, or bones of the dead, or a menstruous rag, which used to be hung upon him for whom there was a fear of the jinn's, or genii's, being attached to him: or the hanging of some such thing upon such a person, as a child or any other; for they used to say that the jinn would not approach those things: or a thing which the Arabs used to do, as an amulet, to drive away thereby the [evil] eye:
مُنَجِّسَةٌ also is the name of a kind of amulet: and
نِجَاسٌ is syn. with تَعْوِيذٌ; [by which may be meant either that it signifies an amulet, or that it is a quasi-Verbal.Noun of 2; for it is said that] it is app. a subst. from نَجَّسَ لَهُ, or نَجَّسَهُ, as signifying عَوَّذَهُ. See also 2.
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