مُشَيَّعٌ
Root: شيع
Full Definition
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3 المُشَيَّعَةُ, in a trad. relating to sheep or goats to be slaughtered as victims on the day of sacrifice, in which trad. such are forbidden, means the sheep or goat that requires one to urge it on after the [other] sheep or goats, because of its weakness and leanness, or because of its lack of strength to follow them: or, as some relate it, the word is المُشَيِّعَةُ , meaning that ceases not to follow the [other] sheep or goats, (لَا تَزَالُ الغَنَمَ, O, K, * i. e. تَتْبَعُهَا, Mgh, O, K,) or that ceases not to lag behind the [other] sheep or goats, not coming up with them, but always going behind them, because of its leanness; from شَيَّعَ الضَّيْفَ [expl. above ]; or as though urging on the [other] sheep or goats.
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