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اجزّ

Root: جز

Form: 4

Full Definition

اجزّIV It attained to the proper time for being cut; said [app. of wool, and] of hair, and of herbage, and wheat, and barley; as also , said of wool, and of wheat; and جَزَّ , [Present.T, app., جَزِزَ as below,] said of wheat.
2 اجزّ الِشّيحُ The sheeh [a species of wormwood] attained to the proper time for being cut: or اجزّ الشَّيْخُ The old man attained to the proper time for dying. [SM says,] الشَّيْخُ seems to be a mistranscription, for الشِّيحُ: if not, it is a tropical expression. [But see 4 in art. جزر, and 8 in art. خضر.]
3 اجزّ الغَنَمُ The sheep attained to the proper time for being shorn; as also جَزَّ .
4 اجزّ النَّخْلُ The palm-trees attained to the proper time for having their fruit cut off; as also جَزَّ .
5 [Hence, app.,] اجزّ التَّمْرُ The dates dried; as also جَزَّ , Present.T جَزِزَ Verbal.Noun جُزُوزٌ, or جَزٌّ: you say تَمْرٌ فِيهِ جُزُوزٌ Dates in which is dryness.
6 اجزّ القَوْمُ The people attained to the proper time for the shearing of their sheep: or had their sheep shorn: or had their seed-produce cut.

def.2 اجزّ الرَّجُلَ He assigned to the man the جِزَّة [or wool, &c.,] of a sheep.


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