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أَجَشُّ

Root: جش

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أَجَشُّ Having a rough, or loud, or vehement, voice, or sound: applied to a man, and a horse, and thunder, &c. You say, رَجُلٌ أَجَشُّ الصَّوْتِ A man having a [rough, or] loud, or vehement, voice. And فَرَسٌ أَجَشُّ, or أَجَّشُ الصَوْتِ, A horse in whose neighing is a roughness. And سَحَابٌ أَجَشُّ, or أَجَشُّ الرَّعْدِ, Clouds that thunder vehemently. And قَوْسٌ جَشَّآءُ, [جشّآء being the fem. of اجشّ,] A bow having a rough twanging, when one shoots with it.
2 الأَجَشُّ is also the name of One of the sounds of which musical modulations are formed, which are three in number; [app. meaning the treble, tenor, and bass, clefs; the last being that to which this term is applied;] the sound thus called being from the head, issuing from the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages in the nose], having in it a roughness and hoarseness, and followed by a gradual fall (تَحَدُّر) [of the voice] modulated in accordance to that same sound, and then followed by a sound [in my original بِوَشْىٍ, but I think it probable that this is a mistranscription for بِوَحْىٍ, or بِوَحًى, or the like, for, though وَشْىٌ might perhaps, by straining a metaphor, be applied to denote a varied sound, its being understood in this sense seems to be forbidden by its being here added] like the first. [This explanation is perhaps illustrated by the fact that the bass in the music of the Arabs is often formed of one prolonged note, falling and rising.]
3 Also جَشَّآءُ, [أَرْضٌ being understood,] A pebbly plain, fit for palm-trees.


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