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سِرْجِينٌ ذ i. q. زِبْلٌ [i. e. dung of horses or other solid-hoofed animals, or fresh dung of camels, sheep and goats, wild oxen, and the like; used for manure]: (Msb, and K in art. سرجن:) a foreign, or Pers., word, (Msb,) originally سَرْكِين, [meaning سَرْگِينْ,] (Msb, K,) arabicized, (Msb, and S and K in art. سرجن,) by the conversion of the ك [or گ] into ج, and also into ق, so that one says also سِرْقِينٌ [q. v.]: As is related to have said, I know not how to say it, and I only say رَوْثٌ: it is with kesr to the first letter in order to agree with Arabic words; fet-h not being allowable, because there is no instance of the measure فَعْلِيلٌ; though it is said in the M to be سِرْجِينٌ and سَرْجِينٌ: (Msb:) [the word being arabicized, all its letters should be regarded as radical; but] many assert the ن to be augmentative [and therefore mention the word, or the two words, in the present art., as does the author of the Msb]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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