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فَثَجَ

Root: فثج

Form: 1

Full Definition

فَثَجَI i. q. نَقَصَ [accord. to the TK in a trans. sense, for it is there said that فَثَج الشَّىْءَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun فَثْجٌ, signifies He, or it, diminished the thing]; said in this sense in relation to anything.
2 [Hence, app., though perhaps the verb in each of these three phrases may be the Present.T of ,] بِئْرٌ لَا تُفْثَجُ means A well that will not become exhausted: and فُلَانٌ بَحْرٌ لَا يُفْثَجُ Such a one is a sea that will not become exhausted: and مَآءٌ لَا يُفْثَجُ Water that will not become exhausted; or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, of which the bottom will not be reached [app. by drawing therefrom]. And فَثْجٌ [or فَثْجٌ مَآءٍ مِنْ مَوْضِعٍ] means A drawing of water from a place.
3 And فَثَجَ المَآءَ الحَارَّ بِالبَارِدِ He abated, or allayed, somewhat of the heat of the hot water with the cold. (O, K. [Compare فَثَأَ.])

def.2 فَثْجٌ [as Verbal.Noun of فَثَجَت] used in relation to a she-camel signifies [The being such as is termed فَاثِجٌ in any of the senses assigned to it below: or simply] the being pregnant: as also فَسْجٌ.
2 And فَثَجَ, Verbal.Noun فَثْجٌ, said of a man, signifies أَثْقَلَ; (thus in the O and in copies of the K; [but accord. to the TK, أُثْقِلَ, for it is there said that the meaning is He was, or became, burdened, or heavy;]) as also فَثَّجَ , Verbal.Noun تَثْفِيجٌ.
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