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حَشٌّ

Root: حش

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حَشٌّ and حُشٌّ , but the former is the more common, and حِشٌّ , A garden: or a garden of palm-trees: pl. حِشَّانٌ and حُشَّانٌ.
2 Hence, A privy; likewise called بَيْتُ الحَشِّ or : because they used to ease themselves in the gardens: then, when they made privies, they applied thus this appellation: and in like manner, مَحَشٌّ ; but accord. to the Abridgment of the 'Eyn., this is proper, not tropical: or this last, also written مِحَشٌّ , signifies the same; or a place in which human ordure has become collected: the pl. of حشّ as applied to a privy is حُشُوشٌ and حُشُّونَ.

def.2 See also مَحَشَّةٌ.
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