عَجَاجَةٌ

Root: عج

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عَجَاجَةٌ : see the next preceding paragraph, first sentence. [Hence,] one says, فُلَانٌ يَلُفُّ عَجَاجَتَهُ عَلَى بَنِى فُلَانٍ [Such a one folds his cloud of dust], meaning, makes a hostile, or predatory, incursion, or attack, upon the sons of such a one. And لَبَّدَ عَجَاجَتَهُ He laid, or allayed, his عجاجة [or cloud of dust], meaning he desisted from that in which he was engaged.
2 Also Many great camels: so accord. to Fr, as mentioned by A 'Obeyd: but Sh says, I know not the word in this sense.
3 See also the next preceding paragraph, second sentence.

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