شِظِيَّةٌ

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شِظِيَّةٌ A splinter, or piece split off, of a staff, or stick, and the like, or of wood, and the like, or of a reed, or cane, or of silver, or of bone, or of anything: pl. شَظَايَا and شَظِىٌّ , [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] like as رَكِىٌّ is of رَكِيَّةٌ, or a quasi-pl. n., like عَبِيدٌ, improperly said by IAar to be pl. of شَظًى, and , (K, TA, [in the latter as omitted in the K, with kesr to the ش on account of the same vowel-sound following,]) mentioned by Sgh, from Ks. AO terms the إِبْرَة [q. v.] at the head of the elbow [of the horse] a شَظِيَّة adhering to the ذِرَاع, but not [forming a portion] of it. (TA. [See شَظًى.])
2 Also A bow: because its wood is split: on the authority of AHn.
3 And The shankbone.
4 And A great mass of rock wrenched from the side of a mountain; as though it were a piece split off, broken [off] but not parted so as to form an interstice, or a gap: and also a piece cut from a mountain, like a house or a tent: and it is said in the copies of the K that شِظْيَةٌ, with kesr, signifies the same; but the word is correctly شِنْظِيَةٌ , with an augmentative ن as in the T, and mentioned also by Hr in the “ Ghareebeyn: ” pl. of the former شَظَايَا.
5 See also شَنْظَاةٌ.

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