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اِضْطَجَعَ

Root: ضجع

Form: 8

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اِضْطَجَعَVIII , and its vars. اِضَّجَعَ and اِلْطَجَعَ: see 1, first sentence.
2 الاِضْطِجَاعُ فِى السُّجُودِ is The not drawing up the body from the ground in prostration [in prayer]; the contracting oneself, and making the breast to cleave to the ground, therein. [See also its part. n., below.]
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