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جش

1 جَشَّهُ ذ , (S, A, K,) aor. جَشُ3َ , inf. n. جَشٌّ, (S,) He ground it (namely wheat, S, or grain, A) coarsely; (S, A;) as also ↓ أَجَشَّهُ . (S.) ― -b2- He bruised, brayed, or pounded, it: and he broke it: (S, K:) as also ↓ أَجَشَّهُ . (K) ― -b3- He beat him, or struck him, with a staff or stick. (S, K.) 4 أَجْشَ3َ see 1, in two places. جُشَّةٌ ذ (A, K, TA) and ↓ جَشَشٌ (TA) Loudness, or vehemence, of voice or sound: (A, K, TA:) and a rough sound coming forth from the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages in the nose], in which is a hoarseness. (K, TA.) You say, ↓ فِى صَهِيلِ الفَرَسِ جَشَشٌ In the neighing of the horse is a rough sound: (TA:) which is one of the qualities approved in horses. (IDrd.) And فِى صَوْتِ القَوْسِ جُشَّةٌ عِنْدَ الرَّمْىِ In the sound of the bow is a roughness of twanging on the occasion of shooting. (AHn TA.) جَشَشٌ ذ : see جُشَّةٌ, in two places. جَشِيشٌ ذ Wheat coarsely ground; as also ↓ مَجْشُوشٌ . (S.) ― -b2- And, [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] (TA,) as also ↓ جَشِيشَةٌ , (S, K, TA,) What is coarsely ground, (S, K, TA,) of wheat &c., (S,) or of wheat and the like: (K, TA:) or the former, grain when bruised, brayed, or pounded, before it is cooked: and ↓ the latter, such as is cooked: but ISd says that this distinction is not of valid authority. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, the former, i. q. سَوِيقٌ [Meal of parched barley or wheat, coarsely ground, which is made into a kind of gruel]; (El-Fárisee, S, K;) and so ↓ the latter: (A:) or ↓ the latter is the n. un. (El-Fárisee.) You say, اِسْقِنِى ↓ جَشِيشَةٌ Give thou me to drink [some] سويق. (A.) Or سويق is not called ↓ جشيشة , but is called جَذِيذَةٌ, q. v. (TA.) ― -b4- And the former, (Sh, K,) or ↓ جَشِيشَةٌ , (TA in art. دش,) Wheat coarsely ground, and put into a cooking-pot, into which some flesh-meat is thrown, or some dates, and then cooked: (Sh, K:) also called دَشِيشَةٌ: (TA:) or a soup made of coarsely bruised wheat. (TA in art. دش.) جَشِيشَةٌ ذ : see جَشِيشٌ, in seven places. 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.) مِجَشٌّ ذ , (S,) or ↓ مِجَشَّةٌ , (A,) or both, (K,) A mill (S, K) with which جَشِيش is ground: (S:) or a small mill with which one grinds coarsely. (A.) مِجَشَّةٌ ذ : see what next precedes. مَجْشُوشٌ ذ : see جَشِيشٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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