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عَنَجَ

Root: عنج

Form: 1

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عَنَجَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun عَنْجٌ, He drew, or pulled, anything; drew it, or pulled it, to him, or towards him.
2 عَنَجَ رَأْسَ البَعِيرِ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun as above, He pulled up, or drew up, the camel's head by means of the [halter, or cord, called] خِطَام. And عَنَجَ البَعِيرَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun عَنْجٌ as above; and , Verbal.Noun إِعْنَاجٌ; He trained, or broke, the camel in a certain manner; i. e. he pulled, or drew, the camel's خِطَام towards his head, and forced him back upon his hind legs, so that, sometimes, the prominent part behind his ears clave to the upright piece of wood that rises from the fore part of the saddle: and عَنَجَ الجَمَلَ He pulled the nose-rein of the camel to make him stop: and عَنَجَ النَّاقَةَ He reined up the she-camel on an occasion of her stumbling.
3 عَنَجَ الدَّلْوَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun as above; and ; He put, or attached, to the leathern bucket, an appertenance called عِنَاج [q. v.].
4 And hence, عَنَجْتُ البَكْرَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun as above, I tied the young camel's [halter, or cord, called] خِطَام to his arm, and made it short: thus one does to a young camel only when he is trained, or broken.
5 عَنَجَهُ also signifies, He bent it, or inclined it; and occurs in this sense in a trad. of 'Alee, in which the pronoun relates to a sail. And one says, عَنَجَ نَعْلَهُ He bent [app. upwards] the head [or fore part] of his sandal.
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