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مَحَشٌّ

Root: حش

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مَحَشٌّ , or مِحَشٌّ , (K, [but this seems to be a mistake occasioned by the accidental omission of وَالمَحَشُّ, as is indicated by the addition of وَيُكْسَرُ shortly after, referring to the word in a sense different from that which is here next mentioned,] A place, or land, in which is much حَشِيش [or dry herbage]; as also مَحَشَّةٌ : or a place in which one cuts حشيش: and the first (مَحَشٌّ) a place in which are much pasture, or herbage, and wealth, or good things. You say, هٰذَا مَحَشُّ صِدْقٍ, meaning This is a [good] region abounding in حَشِيش. And إِنَّكَ بِمَحَشِّ صِدْقٍ فَلَا تَبْرَحْهُ Verily thou art in a place abounding in good things, therefore do not quit it: so in some copies of the S; and accord. to this explanation, the word is tropically used: in other copies of the S, in a place abounding in حَشِيش.
2 See also حَشٌّ.
3 Also the former, A thing in which حَشِيش is put; and so مِحَشٌّ ; but the former is the more chaste; and مِحَشَّةٌ , and مَحَشَّةٌ , which is more chaste; so in some copies of the K; and حُشَاشٌ , like غُرَابٌ; of which the pl. is أَحْشِشَةٌ: the first two of these words are applied to a woollen كِسَآء [q. v.] in which حَشِيش is put: and حِشَاشٌ , with kesr, signifies a [sack of the kind called] جُوَالِق in which is حَشِيش.
4 See also مِحَشٌّ.


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