Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

جَشْءٌ

Root: جشأ

Full Definition

جَشْءٌ A light bow: or a bow that makes a ringing sound: or a light rod of the tree called نَبْع: pl. أَجْشَآءُ, anomalous, and asserted by IHsh to be rare, and جَشَآتٌ. (K: in the CK, جَشْآتٌ.)
2 سَهْمٌ جَشْءٌ A light arrow.

def.2 A large number of men, and of cattle.


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