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عجب

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أَعْجَبُ ذ [ More, and most, wonderful or admirable or pleasing ]. ― -b2- [And the fem.] عَجْبَاآءُ signifies A female wondered at for her beauty: and also, for her ugliness. (O, K.) -A2- Also, i. e. the former, A thick, or big, or coarse, camel. (O, K. *) And so the fem. applied to a she-camel: (O, K:) or, so applied, thick in the عَجْب [or root, &c.,] of the tail: (TA:) or whereof the hinder part, (O, K,) or the upper portion of that part, (L, TA,) is narrow, and whereof the جَاعِرَتَانِ [q. v.] are prominent: (O, L, K, TA:) the kind of make thus particularized is ugly. (TA.)

Derived headwords

أَعْجَبُ
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