عَنْجَفٌ
Root: عجف
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عَنْجَفٌ
, like جَنْدَلٌ, or عُنْجُفٌ, (AA, O and K in art. عنجف,) like قُنْفُذٌ, and
عُنْجُوفٌ , Dry, or tough, by reason of leanness, meagreness, or emaciation, (AA, K in this art., and O and K in art. عنجف,) or of disease: thus expl. by AA, and mentioned by IDrd and Az among quadriliteral-radical words. And Short, and compact, or contracted [in make or body]: and sometimes applied as an epithet to an old woman: thus the latter word is expl. by IDrd.
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