دَجَاجٌ

Root: دج

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دَجَاجٌ and دِجَاجٌ and دُجَاجٌ, the first of which is more chaste than the second, and the second than the third; a coll. gen. n.; n. un. دَجَاجَةٌ and دِجَاجَةٌ and دُجَاجَةٌ; applied to the male and the female; A certain bird, well known; [the common domestic fowl, both cock and hen;] so called because of its [frequent] coming and going: pl. دُجُجٌ, and sometimes دَجَائِجُ; and pl. of the n. un. دجاجاتٌ; and دِجَاجٌ may be regarded as a broken pl. of دِجَاجَةٌ, its kesreh and ا being considered as the kesreh and ا which make the pl. form, and as being not the kesreh and ا which are in the sing.; or it may be a pl. of دُجَاجَةٌ with the augmentative letter ا rejected, as though pl. of دُجَّةٌ.
2 [Hence,] الدَّجَاجَةُ [ The constellation Cygnus; so called in the present day;] a certain northern constellation, consisting of nineteen stars in the figure and two without the figure, of which the four stars in a row are called الفَوَارِسُ, and lie across the Milky Way.
3 دَجَاجُ البَرِّ: see حَجَلٌ.
4 دَجَاجَةٌ, or دَجَاجٌ, also signifies A family, or household; the persons who dwell with a man, and whose maintenance is incumbent on him.
5 Also the former, A ball (كُبَّة) of spun thread: or the [receptacle called] حِفْش thereof: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n., of which it is the n. un.,] دَجَاجٌ.
6 الدَّجَاجَتَانِ The two projections, or projecting bones, of the breast of a horse, on the right and left of the زَوْر [q. v.].

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