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جَزْعٌ جزع (S, Msb, K) and ↓ جِزْعٌ , (Kr, K,) but IDrd ascribes the latter to the vulgar, (TA,) [The onyx; so called in the present day;] certain beads, or gems, (خَرَزٌ,) (Msb,) the beads, or gems, (خَرَز, [here rendered by Golius “ Murœna seu concha Veneris, ” though he also gives what I regard as the only correct signification, namely “ onyx, ”]) of El-Yemen (S, K) [and] of China, (K) in which are whiteness and blackness, (S, Msb, K,) and to which eyes are likened, (S, K,) and in particular, by Imra-el-Keys, the eyes of wild animals, because their eyes, while they are alive, are black, but when they die, their whiteness appears; (TA;) a kind of stone having many colours, brought from El-Yemen and China; (Kzw;) so called because interrupted by various colours; its blackness being interrupted by its whiteness and its yellowness: (IB:) 'Áïsheh's necklace [which she lost on the occasion that subjected her to the accusation of adultery] was of جَزْع of Dhafári: (TA:) the wearing it in a signet induces anxiety, or disquietude of mind, and grief, and terrifying dreams, and altercation with men; and if the hair of one who experiences difficulty in bringing forth be wound upon it, she brings forth at once: (K: [and Kzw says the like, and more of a similar kind:]) n. un. جَزْعَةٌ (Msb, K, * TA) and جِزْعَةٌ. (K, * TA.) -A2- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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