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أَجَشُّ ذ Having a rough, (S, K,) or loud, or vehement, (A,) voice, or sound: (S, A, K:) applied to a man, and a horse, and thunder, (A, K,) &c. (K.) You say, رَجُلٌ أَجَشُّ الصَّوْتِ A man having a [rough, or] loud, or vehement, voice. (A.) And فَرَسٌ أَجَشُّ, (A,) or أَجَّشُ الصَوْتِ, (S, TA,) A horse in whose neighing is a roughness. (TA.) And سَحَابٌ أَجَشُّ, (As,) or أَجَشُّ الرَّعْدِ, (S,) Clouds that thunder vehemently. (As.) And قَوْسٌ جَشَّآءُ, [جشّآء being the fem. of اجشّ,] A bow having a rough twanging, (AHn, K,) when one shoots with it. (AHn.) ― -b2- الأَجَشُّ is also the name of One of the sounds of which musical modulations are formed, (Kh, K,) which are three in number; [app. meaning the treble, tenor, and bass, clefs; the last being that to which this term is applied;] the sound thus called being from the head, (Kh,) issuing from the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages in the nose], having in it a roughness and hoarseness, (Kh, K,) and followed by a gradual fall (تَحَدُّر) [of the voice] modulated in accordance to that same sound, and then followed by a sound [in my original بِوَشْىٍ, but I think it probable that this is a mistranscription for بِوَحْىٍ, or بِوَحًى, or the like, for, though وَشْىٌ might perhaps, by straining a metaphor, be applied to denote a varied sound, its being understood in this sense seems to be forbidden by its being here added] like the first. (Kh, TA.) [This explanation is perhaps illustrated by the fact that the bass in the music of the Arabs is often formed of one prolonged note, falling and rising.] ― -b3- Also جَشَّآءُ, [أَرْضٌ being understood,] A pebbly plain, fit for palm-trees. (K, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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