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دَجَاجٌ دجاج and دِجَاجٌ (S, A, Msb) and دُجَاجٌ, (TA,) the first of which is more chaste than the second, (S, A, Msb, * TA,) and the second than the third; (TA;) a coll. gen. n.; (S, TA;) n. un. دَجَاجَةٌ (S, Mgh, K) and دِجَاجَةٌ (S, K) and دُجَاجَةٌ; (K;) applied to the male and the female; (S, K;) A certain bird, (TA,) well known; (S, Msb, K;) [the common domestic fowl, both cock and hen;] so called because of its [frequent] coming and going: (Towsheeh:) pl. دُجُجٌ, (Mgh, Msb,) and sometimes دَجَائِجُ; (Msb;) and pl. of the n. un. دجاجاتٌ; and دِجَاجٌ may be regarded as a broken pl. of دِجَاجَةٌ, its kesreh and ا being considered as the kesreh and ا which make the pl. form, and as being not the kesreh and ا which are in the sing.; or it may be a pl. of دُجَاجَةٌ with the augmentative letter ا rejected, as though pl. of دُجَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] الدَّجَاجَةُ [(assumed tropical:) The constellation Cygnus; so called in the present day;] a certain northern constellation, consisting of nineteen stars in the figure and two without the figure, of which the four stars in a row are called الفَوَارِسُ, and lie across the Milky Way. (Kzw.) ― -b3- دَجَاجُ البَرِّ: see حَجَلٌ. ― -b4- دَجَاجَةٌ, (accord. to the K,) or دَجَاجٌ, (accord. to the TA, [the latter app. the correct term,]) also signifies (assumed tropical:) A family, or household; the persons who dwell with a man, and whose maintenance is incumbent on him. (K, TA.) ― -b5- Also the former, (assumed tropical:) A ball (كُبَّة) of spun thread: (S, K:) or the [receptacle called] حِفْش thereof: pl. [or rather coll. gen. n., of which it is the n. un.,] دَجَاجٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- الدَّجَاجَتَانِ (assumed tropical:) The two projections, (TA,) or projecting bones, (MF,) of the breast of a horse, on the right and left of the زَوْر [q. v.]. (TA, MF.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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