أَجَمَةٌ

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أَجَمَةٌ A thicket, wood, or forest; a collection, or an abundant collection, of tangled, confused, or dense, trees, or shrubs: or it is of reeds, or canes: or a [place such as is termed] مَغِيض of water collected together, in which, in consequence thereof, trees grow: (S in art. غيض:) [or] it signifies also a bed, or place of growth, of canes or reeds: the pl. is أَجَمَاتٌ and أُجُمٌ and أُجْمٌ and أَجَمٌ , [or rather this last is a coll. gen. n., of which أَجَمَةٌ is the n. un.,] and إِجَامٌ and [pl. of pauc.] آجَامٌ, or the last but one is pl. of أَجَمٌ, and so is the last. And hence, The haunt of a lion. (TA in art. حرب.)
2 آجَامٌ [in the CK اَجام] also signifies Frogs. [App. because frogs are generally found in beds of canes or reeds.]

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