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نَشِيْئَةٌ

Root: نشأ

Full Definition

نَشِيْئَةٌ The first part that is made of a tank, or cistern.
2 بَادِى النّشيْئة A tank, or cistern, of which the water is dried up, and the bottom apparent.
3 Also, نشيئة The stone that is placed in the bottom of a tank, or cistern.
4 The earth that is behind the نَصَائِب, which are the stones that are set up around the tank, the interstices between which stones are filled up with kneaded clay: or it is said to signify what is constructed round the tank; also called أَعْضَادٌ.
5 نشيئةُ البِئْرِ The earth that is taken forth from the well.
6 نَشِيْئَةٌ What is fresh and green of the plant which is called, when dry, طَرِيفَةٌ.
7 And The plants نَصِىّ and صِلِّيَان: or accord. to AHn, the plant called تَفِرَة, when it has become a little thick, and high, and is yet fresh and green: or, what has sprung, or sprouted up, of any plant, and not yet become thick; as also نَشْأَةٌ . See نَاشِئٌ, at the end.
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