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أَدْعَجُ ذ A man characterized by what is termed دَعَجٌ in the eyes: fem. دَعْجَآءُ: and pl. دُعْجٌ. (Msb.) And عَيْنٌ دَعْجَآءُ An eye so characterized. (S.) ― -b2- Also Black; (S, K;) as an epithet applied to a man. (S.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A bull, (A,) [i. e.] a wild bull, and a he-goat, (TA,) characterized by intense blackness (A) of the horns, (A, TA,) and of the head, and of the legs, (A,) and of the eyes, in the case of the he-goat. (TA.) ― -b4- شَفَةٌ دَعْجَآءُ and لِثَةٌ دَعْجَآءُ (tropical:) [A lip and a gum app. of a blue colour inclining to white]. (TA.) ― -b5- لَيْلٌ أَدْعَجُ (tropical:) [A black, or an intensely black, night;] a dark, black night. (A, * TA.) ― -b6- الدَّعْجَآءُ (tropical:) The first of [the three nights called] the مُحَاق; i. e. (S, K, TA) the twenty-eighth night: (S, A, K:) the second is called السَّرَارُ; and the third, الفَلْتَةُ. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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