Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

وَشِيجٌ

Root: وشج

Full Definition

وَشِيجٌ Trees of which spears are made: or canes growing obliquely, or, as in the M, in an intricate manner: or the hardest of canes: or, as a coll. gen. n., spears; n. un. with ة: [See also عِجْلَةٌ:] or, originally, the roots of canes: and afterwards applied to signify spears, themselves; so called because of their intermingling when meeting together.
2 تَطَاعَنُوا بِالوَشِيجِ They thrust one another with the spears.
3 أَفْنَتِ السَّنَةُ الوَشِيجَ Drought destroyed the tangled trees, or their roots; no moisture remaining in the earth.
4 وَشِيجٌ The roots of the sinews.
5 وَشِيجٌ Intricacy of relationship: pl. وَشَائِجُ. Ex. بَيْنَهُمْ وَشَائِجُ النَّسَبِ There is an intricacy of relationship between them.


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