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شَادِخَةٌ ذ , [as a subst.,] (S, L, K, TA,) or غُرَّةٌ ↓ شَادِخَةٌ, (A,) A blaze on a horse's forehead spreading [ widely (see 1)] upon the face, (S,) or covering the face, (A,) from the forelock to the nose, (S, A,) without reaching to the eyes: (S:) or spreading, and extending downwards, (K, TA,) filling the forehead, without reaching to the eyes: or covering the face from the root of the forelock to the nose: (TA:) or such as is long; such as is round being called وَتِيرَةٌ. (AO, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A notorious, and a bad, or an evil, an abominable, or a foul, deed. (S, TA.) A rájiz says, لَا هُمَّ اـِنَّ الحَارِثَ بْنَ جَبَلَهْ زَنَّى عَلَى أَبِيهِ ثُمَّ قَتَلَهْ وَرَكِبَ الشَّادِخَةَ المُحَجَّلَهْ i. e. [ O God, (لَاهُمَّ being for اَللّٰهُمَّ,) verily El- Hárith Ibn-Jebeleh straitened, or oppressed, his father, (زَنَّى being for زَنَّأَ,) then slew him, ] and committed a bad and notorious deed in slaying him. (S.)

Derived headwords

شَادِخَةٌ
  1. 1.
لَا هُمَّ اـِنَّ الحَارِثَ بْنَ جَبَلَهْ
زَنَّى عَلَى أَبِيهِ ثُمَّ قَتَلَهْ
وَرَكِبَ الشَّادِخَةَ المُحَجَّلَهْ