العُجَايَةُ
Root: عجو
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العُجَايَةُ
and
are two dial. vars., each signifying A piece of the size of a gobbet of flesh, conjoined with a sinew (عَصَبَة) which descends from the knee of the camel to the foot: or the عُجَايَتَانِ are two sinews (عَصَبَتَانِ) in the interior of the fore legs of the horse, in the lower parts of which are things resembling nails (أَظْفَار), called
السَّعْدَانَات: and عُجَايَةٌ is a term applied to all sinews (عَصَب) that conjoin with the solid hoof: or it signifies certain sinews (عَصَب) in which are set ossicles resembling the gems that are set in signet-rings, at the pastern of the horse, or similar beast; when one is hungry, he bruises them between two stones, and eats them; and
is a dial. var. thereof: or any sinew (عَصَبَة) in a fore leg (يَد) or in a hind leg (رِجْل): or a sinew (عَصَبَة) in the interior of the shank (وَظِيف) of the horse and of the bull: or, in a horse, the sinew (عَقَبَة) extending lengthwise from the shank and ending at each of the pasterns; and in it is what is termed
الخطم [a mistranscription, correctly الحَطَم, which means a certain disease in the leg]: and in a she-camel, a sinew (عَقَبَة) in the interior of her fore leg: and also in a horse, a piece of flesh like a small gobbet: accord. to IAth, العُجَايَاتُ signifies the sinews (أَعْصَاب) of the legs of camels and of horses: pl. عُجًى and عُجِىٌّ and عَجَايَا and عُجَايَا and عُجَايَاتٌ.
def.2 See also the first paragraph.
def.2 See also the first paragraph.
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