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كسج

Root entry · 2 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to a specific type of fish and potentially a Persian loanword for a type of plant or herb.

Derived headwords

الكوسجnoun
  1. 1.
    with fatḥa on the kāf: the one with little beardboth

    with fatḥa on the kāf: the one with little beard

  2. 2.
    and it is an arabized wordboth

    and it is an arabized word

أثطnoun
  1. 1.
    plant/herbclassical

    A term for a plant or herb, which is identified as a loanword.

Parallel reading

الكوسج: الأثط، وهو معرب.
Al-Kawsaj: Al-Athth, and it is an Arabized word.
والكوسج: سمكة في البحر، له خرطوم كالمئشار.
And Al-Kawsaj: a fish in the sea, it has a snout like a saw.