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نَغَّاضٌ

Root: نغض

Full Definition

نَغَّاضٌ [In a state of much motion, commotion, agitation, or convulsion; shaking, shaking about, wabbling, tottering, wagging, or nodding, much]. You say, إِبِلٌ نَغَّاضَةٌ بِرِحَالِهَا [Camels jogging much with their saddles; or jogging much their saddles].
2 See also نَاغِضٌ.
3 نَغَّاضُ البَطْنِ Wrinkled in the belly: an expression applied to Mohammad, by 'Alee, who thus explained it: because of the elevation of the wrinkled parts above the even surface of the belly: or it may be derived from غُضُونٌ, meaning “ wrinkles ” in the belly, by transposition of letters.
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