Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

شَجْعَةٌ

Root: شجع

Full Definition

شَجْعَةٌ : see شُجَاعٌ:

def.2 see also شُجْعَةٌ:
2 also Tall, and uncompact in frame:
3 and crippled by disease; or having a protracted disease: [whence] it is said in a prov., أَعْمَى يَقُودُ شَجْعَةً [A blind man leading one crippled by disease, or having a protracted disease: but in Freytag's Arab. Prov. ii. 119, the last word is written شَجَعَة, and said to be pl. of شَاجِعٌ , and to signify, app., suffering paralysis].


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