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سرجن

Root entry · 5 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of manure or dung, specifically animal excrement used as fertilizer for land. It also extends to the act of fertilizing the land with such material.

Derived headwords

السَّرْجِينnoun
  1. 1.
    manureboth

    Animal dung or excrement, particularly when used as fertilizer for the soil.

السُّرْقِينnoun
  1. 1.
    manureboth

    A variant term for animal dung or excrement used as fertilizer.

سرجينother
  1. 1.
    fertilizerclassical

    The act of fertilizing the land with manure.

سرقنother
  1. 1.
    fertilizeclassical

    To fertilize the land with manure.

السرجونnoun
  1. 1.
    manureclassical

    A dialectal or variant pronunciation/term for manure.

Parallel reading

السرجين والسرقين، بكسرهما: الزبل تدمل به الأرض.
Al-sarjeen and al-surqeen, with kasra on both: the dung with which the land is fertilized.
وهما معربا سركين بالفتح
And they are Persian loanwords (mu'arrab) from sarkeen, with fatha.
والكاف العربية قد تعرب بالجيم وتعرب بالقاف.
And the Arabic kaf (letter) can be Arabized as a jeem and can be Arabized as a qaf.
سرجن الأرض وسرقنها: إذا دملها بالزبل.
Sarjana al-ard wa saraqnaha: if he fertilized it with dung.
ونقل ابن سيده فتح السين فيهما شذوذا.
And Ibn Sidah transmitted the fatha on the seen in both of them as an anomaly.
والسرجون: لغة في السرجين.
And al-sarjoon: a dialectal form for al-sarjeen.