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شَجِيجٌ

Root: شج

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شَجِيجٌ and مَشْجُوجٌ A head broken [so that its skin or its flesh is cloven]: or a man having his head [so] broken: pl. [of the former] شَجَّى: you say قَوْمٌ شَجَّى.
2 Each is also applied as an epithet to a wooden peg or stake [as meaning Having its head broken, or mangled, by blows]: and so is مُشَجَّجٌ , but in an intensive sense.
3 And both the first and ↓ last signify A wooden peg or stake; each as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates: because its head is separated, or uncompacted, in its component parts [or fibres by its being battered]. One says, مَا بِالدَّارِ شَجِيجٌ and مُشَجَّجٌ There is not in the house [even] a wooden peg or stake.
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