مَوْزٌ
Root: موز
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مَوْزٌ
A certain kind of tree, or fruit, well known; [the fruit of the banana-tree, or musa paradisiaca;] i. q.
طَلْحٌ [in one of the acceptations of this latter word]: it is lenitive, diuretic, provocative of venery, and augments the spermatic fluid and the phlegm and the yellow bile, and the eating much of it is very oppressive, for it is slow of digestion: the tree grows in the manner of the
بَرْدِىّ, [i. e., papyrus, or perhaps other rushes,] and has a long and broad leaf, which may be three cubits by two cubits, the
مَوْز [i. e., the fruit] is found, where it grows, throughout the whole year, and there may be on one of its racemes from thirty to five hundred fruits; this is seen in the districts of Makdishoo [between Abyssinia and the country of the Zenj]; and when this is the case, the raceme is propped up; it rises to the height of the stature of a man, [and higher,] and its offsets continually grow around it, every one of them smaller than another; and when it has produced its fruit, the mother-tree is cut down at the foot, and its offset that has attained to its height fructifies, and becomes a mother, the rest remaining its offsets, and thus it continues: whence the saying of Ash'ab, to his son, as related by As, Wherefore dost thou not become like me? to which he answered, Such as I is like the مَوْزَة, which does not attain to a good state until its mother dies. مَوْزَةٌ is the n. un.
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