نَجَاشِىٌّ
Root: نجش
Full Definition
نَجَاشِىٌّ
and نِجَاشِىٌّ: see نَاجِشٌ.
def.2 النَّجَاشِى, the form preferred by El-Fárábee, and النَّجَاشِىُّ, which is the more common, but the former is the more chaste, and [النِّجَاشِى and النِّجَاشِىُّ] with kesr to the ن, which is said to be the more chaste, and is preferred by Th, but teshdeed of the ج is a mistake, The
name of the King of the Abyssinians; like as one says
كِسْرَى
and
قَيْصَرٌ; and Abyssinian word: or a certain King of the Abyssinians, whose name was
أَصْحَمَةُ; [as is commonly said; but authors differ respecting his name;] and IKt says, that النجاشى is in Coptic اصحمة, meaning “ a gift: ” or originally the proper name of an individual, and afterwards a common title.
def.2 النَّجَاشِى, the form preferred by El-Fárábee, and النَّجَاشِىُّ, which is the more common, but the former is the more chaste, and [النِّجَاشِى and النِّجَاشِىُّ] with kesr to the ن, which is said to be the more chaste, and is preferred by Th, but teshdeed of the ج is a mistake, The