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لصغ

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root describes a state of dryness or hardening, specifically related to flesh or skin becoming dry and adhering to the bone.

Derived headwords

لَصَغَverb
  1. 1.
    to dry upclassical

    The skin or flesh dried up and adhered tightly to the bone.

لُصُوغًاnoun
  1. 1.
    drynessclassical

    A state of dryness where the flesh adheres to the bone.

لَصَغَاnoun
  1. 1.
    drynessclassical

    A state of dryness where the flesh adheres to the bone.

Parallel reading

لصغ الجلد، كمنع لصغا، ولصوغا، بالضم أهمله الجوهري وفي المحيط واللسان: أي يبس على العظم عجفا
The skin dried up, like 'man'a' (prevented), with 'lasagha' (dryness) and 'lusūghan' (dryness), the latter with damma. Al-Jawhari neglected it, but in Al-Muḥīṭ and Al-Lisān: it means it became dry and adhered to the bone with toughness.
أي يبس على العظم عجفا
It means it became dry and adhered to the bone with toughness.
نقله الصاغاني أيضا هكذا
Al-Ṣāghānī also transmitted it thus.
وكذا ابن القطاع
And so did Ibn al-Qaṭṭāʿ.