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نَاشِزٌ

Root: نشز

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نَاشِزٌ Rising; or rising from its place; high, or elevated; protuberant, or prominent; protruding. You say, قَلْبٌ نَاشِزٌ A heart rising from its place by reason of fright. And تَلٌّ نَاشِزٌ A high, or an elevated, mound, or hill: pl. [reg. of نَاشِزَةٌ and irreg. of نَاشِزٌ] نَوَاشِزُ. And رَكَبٌ نَاشِزٌ A protuberant, high, pubes, or mons Veneris. And لَحْمَةٌ نَاشِزَةٌ A piece of flesh elevated, or protuberant, upon the body. And عِرْقٌ نَاشِزٌ A vein constantly swollen and pulsating in consequence of disease or from some other cause. And رَجُلٌ نَاشِزُ الجَبْهَةِ A man having a high, or prominent, forehead. And إِمْرَأَةٌ نَاشِزَةُ القُصَيْرَى A woman large in the sides, having the قصيرى [or lowest of the ribs] with the flesh upon it, prominent.

def.2 Also, or نَاشِزَةٌ, [but the former is the more common,] A woman disobedient to her husband, and exalting herself against him, and hating him, and deserting him. See 1. [The former epithet is also applied in like manner to a husband.]
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