Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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وثى وج وجأ


وجٌّ

وجٌّ A kind of medicine; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) certain twigs, or rods, with which one fumigates; (TA;) or which are used medicinally or remedially; (T;) [acorum, (Golius,) or acorus; sweet-cane, or, as some say, galangal: see Diosc., I. i., c. 2., referred to by Golius:] thought by El-Jawáleekee to be not pure Arabic; i. e., an arabicized word, from the Persian [وَجْ]: (TA:) so says J. (Ṣ.)


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