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غُنْجٌ

Root: غنج

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غُنْجٌ [mentioned above as an Verbal.Noun] and غُنُجٌ and غُنَاجٌ and غِنَاجٌ , in a girl, or young woman, Amorous gesture or behaviour, or such gesture or behaviour combined with coquettish boldness, and feigned coyness or opposition, and an affecting of languor: [in the present day generally used to signify lascivious motion, or a wriggling of the body or hips, under the excitement of sexual passion, or to excite such passion:] accord. to some, beauty of the eyes.

def.2 And غُنْجٌ and غِنَاجٌ signify also Smoke-black (دُخَانُ النَّؤُورِ [see the latter of these two nouns in art. نور] AA, O, K) which a woman performing the operation of tattooing puts upon her green colour in order that it may become black.
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