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سَجَنَهُ

Root: سجن

Form: 1

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سَجَنَهُI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سَجْنٌ, He imprisoned him.
2 [Hence,] it is said in a trad., مَا شَىْءٌ أَحَقَّ بِطُولِ السَّجْنِ مِنْ لِسَانٍ [There is not anything more deserving of long restraint than a tongue].
3 And سَجَنَ الهَمَّ He secreted anxiety; did not reveal it. A poet says, وَ لَا تَسْجُنَنَّ الهَمَّ إِنَّ لِسَجْنِهِ عَنَآءً وَ حَمِّلْهُ المَهَارَى النَّوَاجِيَا [And by no means secrete thou anxiety: verily to the secreting thereof pertains embarrassment: but load with it fleet camels of Mahreh].
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