شَوْحَطٌ
Root: شحط
Full Definition
شَوْحَطٌ
Certain trees, a species of the trees of the mountains, meaning of the mountains of the
سَرَاة, [the mountain-range extending from near 'Arafát to Nejrán in El-Yemen,] for there they grow, of which bows are made: AHn says, One acquainted with [the kind of trees called] the شوحط has informed me that it grows in the manner of the
أَرْز [or pine-tree], many rods growing from one stem; its leaves are thin and long, and it has a fruit like the long grape, [the word here rendered “ grape ” is عنبة, but it has been altered in the MS., and may therefore be incorrect,] except that its extremity is more slender, and it is soft, and is eaten: or i. q.
نَبْعٌ: or a species of the
نَبْع, of which bows are made: or the
شوحط
and
نبع
and
شِرْيَان
are one; the name varying according to the excellence of their places of growth; what is upon the summit of the mountain being called
نبع; what is upon its base, or foot, or lowest or lower part,
شريان; and what is in the depressed tract by its base,
شوحط: IB says the same with respect to the نبع, but that the
شوحط
is that which is upon the lowest part of the mountain; and this is confirmed by what is said by AZ and others: El-Ghanawee El-Aarábee says, the
نبع
and
شوحط
and
سَرَآء
are one: as to the شريان, no one holds it to be of the نبع except Mbr: Aboo-Ziyád says that bows are made of the شريان, and they are good, but of a black colour tinged with redness: and AHn says in one place, that the
نبع
and
شوحط
are yellow in the wood, heavy in the hand; and when they become old, they become red: the n. un. is with ة.
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