Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مُجْنَأٌ

Root: جنأ

Full Definition

مُجْنَأٌ A shield: so called because of its being humped, (K, TA, [in some copies of the former of which, for لِٱحْدِيدَابِهِ, we find لَا حَدِيدَةَ بِهِ, i. e. having no piece of iron in it,]) and on account of its bending form.


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