Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سمح سمحج سمحق


سَمْحَجٌ

سَمْحَجٌ, applied to a she-ass and to a mare, (Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) but not to a male, (AO, Ṣ, O,) and sometimes to a she-camel, (TA,) Long in the back; (Ṣ, O, Ḳ;) as alsoسِمْحَاجٌ↓ (O, Ḳ) andسَمْحُوجٌ↓: (O:) [see an ex. in a verse cited voce شَغَبَ:] pl. of the last but one, or of the last, not of the first as it is asserted to be by AʼObeyd and by Kr, سَمَاحِيجُ: (TA:) and the first, a mare slender in the body, or lean in the belly, but thick in the part between the shoulder and shoulder-blade, (O, Ḳ, TA,) having thick and strong flesh: (TA:) applied only to females. (Ḳ.)

Root: سمحج - Entry: سَمْحَجٌ Signification: A2

Also, applied to a bow, Long. (O, Ḳ.)


سَمْحَجَةٌ

سَمْحَجَةٌ Length in anything. (T, O, Ḳ.)


سِمْحَاجٌ

سِمْحَاجٌ: see سَمْحَجٌ.


سُمْحُوجٌ

سُمْحُوجٌ: see سَمْحَجٌ.

Root: سمحج - Entry: سُمْحُوجٌ Signification: A2

Also Tall and hateful or hated; (O, Ḳ;) applied in this sense to a man. (O.)


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