شجع

شُجَاعٌ ذ and ↓ شِجَاعٌ (Lh, ISk, S, Msb, K) and ↓ شَجَاعٌ, (Msb, K,) which is of the dial, of Benoo- 'Okeyl, being made by them to accord with its contr., which is جَبَانٌ, (Msb,) and ↓ شَجِيعٌ (Lh, S, Msb, K) and ↓ أَشْجَعُ (S, K) and ↓ شَجِعٌ (K) and ↓ شِجَعٌ, (as in some copies of the K,) or ↓ شِجَعَةٌ, (as in other copies of the K and in the TA,) [of all which forms the first is the most common,] Courageous, brave, valiant, bold, daring, or strong-hearted (S, Msb, K) on the occasion of war, or fight, (S, K,) making light of wars, by reason of boldness: (Msb:) fem. [of the 1st and 2nd and 3rd respectively] شُجَاعَةٌ and شِجَاعَةٌ (S, * Msb, * K) and شَجَاعَةٌ (Msb, * K) and شجاع also [without ة] (Msb) and [of the 4th] ↓ شَجِيعَةٌ (Msb, K) and [of the 5th] ↓ شَجْعَاآءُ and [of the 6th] ↓ شَجِعَةٌ: (K:) pl. masc. (of the 1st, S, Msb) شِجْعَةٌ [a pl. of pauc.] (AO, S, Msb, K) and [of the first three, and perhaps of the 4th also,] شَجَعَةٌ (S, K) and (of the 1st, S) شِجْعَانٌ (Lh, S, K) and (of the 4th, S) شُجْعَانٌ (Lh, ISk, S, K) [or, accord. to IDrd, شجعان is a mistake, as is said in the TA, but the word is there written without any syll. signs,] and (of the 4th, S, Msb) ↓ شُجَعَاآءُ (S, Msb, K) and [of the 4th, and perhaps of others also,] شِجَاعٌ, (K,) and also, (but these are quasi-pl. ns., TA,) ↓ شَجْعَةٌ (AO, S, K) and ↓ شُجْعَةٌ (K) and ↓ شَجَعَاآءُ [app. a mistake for شِجَعَاآءُ or شَجْعَاآءُ]: (TA:) pl. fem. [all of شَجِيعَةٌ, or the last of شَجْعَاآءُ or of شَجِعَةٌ,] شَجَائِعُ and شِجَاعٌ and شُجُعٌ: (Lh, K:) or شُجَاعٌ is [an epithet] peculiar to men: (K, * TA:) AZ says, “ I have heard the Kilábees say, رَجُلٌ شُجَاعٌ, but they do not apply this epithet to a woman: ” (S:) ↓ شَجِعَةٌ and ↓ شَجِيعَةٌ, however, are applied to a woman, and signify bold, (Ibn-'Abbád, K,) longtongued, and vehemently clamorous, towards men; (Ibn-'Abbád, TA;) audacious in her speech, (Ibn- 'Abbád, K, [but these two epithets as applied to a woman and signifying “ bold ” &c. are omitted in the CK,]) and in her length of tongue, and vehement clamorousness. (Ibn-'Abbád, TA.) ― -b2- شُجَاعٌ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ شِجَاعٌ (K) also signify (assumed tropical:) The serpent; (K;) and so does ↓ أَشْجَعُ: (TA:) or (tropical:) the male serpent: (Mgh, K:) or a certain species of serpent, (Sh, S, Msb, K,) as also ↓ أَشْجَعُ, (S,) small, (K,) or slender, and asserted to be the boldest of the serpent-kind: (Sh:) pl. شِجْعَانٌ (Lh, IDrd, K) and شُجْعَانٌ, (IDrd, K,) the former of which is the more common: (IDrd:) the pl. of أَشْجَعُ is أَشَاجِعُ; or, as some say, this is pl. of أَشْجِعَةٌ, which is pl. [of pauc.] of شجاع, signifying the serpent. (TA.) [See also شَجْعَمٌ, above.] ― -b3- Also (tropical:) The serpent called صَفَرٌ, that presents itself in the belly (S, K, * TA) of a man, as the Arabs assert, when he has been long hungry: (S, TA:) but As says that شُجَاعُ البَطْنِ signifies (assumed tropical:) vehemence of hunger. (Az, TA.)