إِجَّاصٌ
[The plum;] a certain fruit,of the description termedفَاكِهَة, well known;cold and moist; or, as some say, of moderate temperature;which facilitates the flow of the yellow bile; i. e., its juice, or water, does so, when drunk with sugar-candy (طَبَرْزَذ) and manna (تَرَنْجُبِين) added to it;and allays thirst, and heat of the heart;but it relaxes the stomach, and does not agree with it; and it generates a watery mixture; and its injurious effect is repelled by the drinking of sugaryسِكَنْجُبِين [or oxymel]: it is of several kinds: [the most common is the Damasc, or Damascene, plum:] the best isthe Armenian,that which is sweet and large:the sour, or acid, is less laxative, and more cold: the n. un. is with ة: you should not say إِنْجَاصٌ; or this is a word of weak authority, and you say إِجَّاصٌ and إِنجَاصٌ like as one says إِجَّارٌ and إِنْجَارٌ: in the dial. of the Syrians, the إِجَّاصٌ [or إِنْجَاص or إِنجَاس accord. to common modern usage among them] is the [pear which they formerly called] مِشْمِش and [which others call] كُمَّثْرَي: it is of the growth of the country of the Arabs:اجّاص is an adventitious word, or arabicized, because ج and ص do not both occur in any Arabic word: or, accord. to Az, they do so occur; as, for instance, in حَصَّصَ, and in صَجٌّ.
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