نَرْجِسٌ

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نَرْجِسٌ and نِرْجِسٌ [The narcissus;] a certain sweet-smelling flower, well known: the smell of which is beneficial for the cold rheum and the cold headache: the word is arabicized, from [the Persian] نَرْگِسْ: [this being the case, the ن should be regarded as radical it is said, however, that] the ن in نَرْجِسٌ is augmentative, because there is no word of the measure فَعْلِلٌ, but there is of the measure نَفْعِلٌ, though only what is changed, in application, from a verb: but نِرْجِسٌ is of the measure فِعْلِلُ; or it is of the measure نِفْعِلٌ, the augmentative letter being made to accord in its vowel with the radical letter in إِذْخِرٌ and that in إِثْمِدٌ &c.: or, accord. to IDrd, نَرْجِسٌ is of the measure فَعْلِلٌ, and the only instance of that measure. (TA in art. نرجس.) If you name a man نَرْجِس, you make it imperfectly decl., because it is like نَضْرِبُ: but if you name him نِرْجِس, it is perfectly decl., because it is of the measure فِعْلِلٌ [or نِفْعِلٌ, neither of which is the measure of a verb].
2 نَرْجِسُ المَائِدَةِ: see زُمَاوَرْدٌ.

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