عَجُورٌ
Root: عجر
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عَجُورٌ
[A species of melon: accord. to Forskål, this name and عبدلّاوى are both applied to the cucumis chate: but accord. to Delile, the latter name is thus applied; and عجور (written by him as though it were عَجُّور, but it is without teshdeed,) is the name of the fruit of this species of cucumis while immature; so too says 'Abd-El-Lateef: I have, however, found the name عَجُور to be commonly applied to a species different from the
عَبْدَلَّاوِىّ, (which is also called عَبْدَلِّىّ, see art. عبد,) as Sonnini asserts it to be, and differing therefrom in shape, being, as he describes it, in some instances round, in some instances oval, and in others much elongated: the name is probably derived from the Greek
ἀγγούριον , signifying the “ water-melon ”]: it is said in the Msb that قِثَّآء is a name of what the [common] people call خِيَار and عَجُور and فَقُّوس: but it is said [by some, not by the author of the Msb,] that عَجُور signifies large
قِثَّآء [q. v.]. (TA in art. قثأ.)
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