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جز

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

جَزِيزَةٌ جزيزه جزيزة A flock, or tuft, of wool; as also ↓ جِزْجِزَةٌ; (S, K;) which [latter] is a tuft of wool, or of wool dyed of various colours, (عِهْنَةٌ,) that is hung upon a woman's camel-vehicle (هَوْدَج): (S:) or the latter signifies a tuft of wool tied with threads or strings, with which the woman's camel-vehicle (هودج) is ornamented: and جَزَائِزُ [pl. of the former] and جَزَاجِزُ [pl. of the latter] signify tufts of dyed wool which are hung upon the camel-vehicles (هَوَادِج) of women on the day of going forth on a journey; also called ثُكَنٌ: or جَزَائِزُ, (TA,) or ↓ جَزِيزٌ, (L,) signifies a kind of beads (خَرَز) with which the girls, or slave-girls, (جَوَارٍ,) of the Arabs of the desert are adorned, resembling جَزْع: or tufts of wool, or of wool dyed of various colours, (عِهْنٌ,) which were used in the place of anklets. (TA.)

Derived headwords

جَزِيزَةٌ
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