أَمْعَزُ

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أَمْعَزُ , and its fem. مَعْزَآءُ, applied respectively to a place (مَكَانٌ) and to land or ground (أَرْضٌ), Hard, and abounding with pebbles: or both, [used as substs.,] rugged and stony ground: or a place abounding with pebbles, and hard: or the latter, small pebbles: thus A 'Obeyd explains a sing. as having a pl. signification: or the latter, a desert, (صَحْرَآء) in which is elevation and ruggedness, consisting of soil, or clay, and pebbles, mixed together, but hard ground, rough to the tread: pl. مُعْزٌ, [a pl. of each as an epithet, or of each used as a subst.,] because imagined to have the character of an epithet; and أَمَاعِزُ, [a pl. of the former,] because the character of a subst. predominates in it; and مَعْزَاوَاتٌ, a pl. of the latter.

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