أُتْرُجُّ

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أُتْرُجُّ , the most chaste of the forms here mentioned, a pl., [or rather a coll. gen. n.,] and تُرُنْجٌ , [which is Persian,] a dial. var. of weak authority, by some disallowed, used by the vulgar, the ن in which is by common consent held to be augmentative, likewise a pl., [or coll. gen. n.,] and أُتْرُنْجٌ , mentioned by Ibn-Hishám El-Lakhmee, in his Faseeh, and also used by the vulgar, and by some of the people of Hims, (Lth cited in the L voce حَظٌّ, q. v.,) [and this is likewise a coll. gen. n.,] and أُتْرُجَّةٌ, which is the sing. of the first, or its n. un., also pronounced أُتْرُجَةٌ, without teshdeed, and , likewise a n. un., A certain fruit, well known, plentiful in the land of the Arabs, but not growing wild, [of the species citrus medica, or citron; of which there are two varieties in Egypt; one, of the form of the lemon, but larger, there called تُرُنْج بَلَدِىّ; the other, ribbed, and called تُرُنْج مُصَبَّع: accord. to Golius, citrons of a large size, which have a sweeter peel than others, and are of a size nearly equal to that of a melon:] the sour sort allays the lust of women, clears the complexion, and removes the [discoloration of the face termed] كَلَف, that arises from phlegm; the peel thereof, put among clothes, preserves them from the moth-worm: it is also beneficial as an antidote against the various kinds of poison; the smelling it in times of plague, or pestilence, is beneficial in the highest degree; and jinn, or genii, do not enter the house in which it is; wherefore a reciter of the Kur-án is appropriately likened to it: the pl. of أُتْرُجَّةٌ is أُتْرُجَّاتٌ as well as أُتْرُجٌّ: [or rather the latter is a coll. gen. n., as stated above:] but one should not say تُرُنْجَاتٌ [app. because it is vulgar; for it is agreeable with analogy as pl. of تُرُنْجَةٌ; as is also أُتْرُنْجَاتٌ as pl. of ].

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