يَلَنْجُوجٌ

Root: لج

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يَلَنْجُوجٌ and يَلَنْجَجٌ and أَلَنْجَجٌ, or يَلَنْجُوجُ and يَلَنْجَجُ and أَلَنْجَجُ, [all three imperfectly declinable, as being generic proper names and of foreign origin, borrowed from the Persian language,] and أَلَنْجُوجٌ and يَلَنْجَجٌ and يَلَنْجُوجٌ [which last is omitted in the CK] and يَلَنْجُوجِىٌّ and أَلَنْجَجٌ and أَلَنْجِيجٌ, Aloes-wood; syn. عُودُ الطِّيبِ, or عُودُ البَخُورِ: or the wood of another tree with which one fumigates: a certain wood with which one fumigates. The ا and ى in النجج and يلنجج [&c.] are augmentative letters added to make these words quasi-coordinate to the class of quinqueliteral-radical words: an augmentative letter is not used for such a purpose at the beginning of a word unless there is also with it another augmentative letter: and such, here, is the ن. Lh uses يلنجوج and النجوج and النجيج as epithets, writing عُودٌ يلنجوج &c. The wood thus called has a very beneficial effect upon a relaxed stomach, when eaten; and of the beneficial effects for which it is most celebrated are those which it produces upon the brain and the heart, when used for fumigation and when eaten.

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