صَوْلَجَانٌ
Root: صولج
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صَوْلَجَانٌ
and
صَوْلَجَانَةٌ and
صَوْلَجٌ and
, as also صَوَّجَانٌ, (L in art. صوج,) [A kind of goff-stick, or golf-stick, played with by men on horseback;] a stick with a curved, or crooked, end; syn. مِحْجَنٌ; [or rather] a stick of which the end is curved [artificially] with which a ball is struck by men on horseback: a stick of which the end curves, or crooks, naturally, on its tree, is called مِحْجَنٌ: of Pers. origin, [i. e. from the Pers. چَوْگَانْ,] arabicized: pl. صَوَالِجَةٌ; the ة being added in the pl. because of the foreign origin, as is mostly the case in broken pls. of words of foreign origin.
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