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سحّجهُ

Root: سحج

Form: 2

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سحّجهُII , Verbal.Noun تَسْحِيجٌ and مُسَحَّجٌ, [of which latter, see an ex. in what follows,] He abraded, or otherwise removed, its outer integument, or superficial part, much, or often.
2 See also 1. An ex. of the latter Verbal.Noun occurs in the following hemistich of the “ Jeemeeyeh ” of El-'Ajjáj: جَأْبَا تَرَى بِلِيِتِهِ مُسَحَّجَا [A bulky, or strong, wild ass, in the side of whose neck thou seest much biting, or lacerating of the skin, that has made marks upon it]: thus heard by AHát from the mouth of AZ, and thus recited by the former to As, who disallowed it, and said, تَلِيلَهُ [i. e. whose neck, or cheek, thou seest to be much bitten, &c., instead of بِلِيِتِهِ], but abstained from objecting after AHát had adduced other exs. [of similar inf. ns.], and among them the saying in the Kur [xxxiv. 18], وَ مَزَّقْنَاهُمْ كُلَّ مُمَزَّقٍ: Az says that مسحّجا is here made an Verbal.Noun, like تَسْحِيجًا.
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