Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

فَجْفَاجٌ

Root: فج

Full Definition

فَجْفَاجٌ , applied to a man, Loquacious; a great talker: or a frivolous babbler: or, as also فَجْفَجٌ and and فُجَافِجٌ , (O, but there written فَجَافِجٌ,) a great talker, who boasts of abundance which he does not possess: or clamourous: or a great and disorderly talker: fem. with ة. The poet Aboo-'Árim El-Kilábee applies the first of these epithets to palm-trees (نَخِيل) [as meaning Promising much fruit, but not fulfilling the promise].


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