جَوْسَقٌ
Root: جوسق
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جَوْسَقٌ
i. q.
قَصْرٌ [A palace: or a pavilion, or kind of building wholly or for the most. part isolated, sometimes on the top of a larger building, i. e., a belvedere, and sometimes projecting from a larger building, and generally consisting of one room if forming a part of a larger building]: or a fortress; syn. حِصْنٌ: or [a building] resembling a
حِصْن: an arabicized word, from the Persian كُوشْك: its primary meaning is a
حِصْن
in a state of demolition; and a ruined
قَصْر: pl. جَوَاسِقُ and جَوَاسِيقُ; the latter formed by giving fulness of sound to the kesreh, or by poetic license. There were, in the Karáfeh, [the great burial-ground of the Egyptian metropolis,] numerous قُصُور, i. e., what are called جواسق, having belvederes (مَنَاظِر) and gardens: but most of the جواسق were without gardens and without a well; being lofty belvederes: all of them were called قُصُور.
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