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نَجَاشِىٌّ

Root: نجش

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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.
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