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سِنْخٌ ذ The أَصْل [i. e. origin, source, root, foundation, &c.,] (JK, S, Msb, K) of anything: (JK, Msb, TA:) as also سِنْحٌ: (L:) pl. [of pauc.] أَسْنَاخٌ (L, Msb) and [of mult.] سُنُوخٌ. (L.) One says, رَجَعَ فُلَانٌ إِِلَى سِنْخِ الكَرَمِ [app. meaning Such a one traced back his lineage to an ancestor who was the origin, or source, of generosity or nobility: or such a one returned, or reverted, to the original state, or condition, of generosity: the latter I think the more probable, as it is immediately added], and إِِلَى سِنْخِهِ الخَبِيثِ [which seems to mean, to his bad original state]. (L.) And it is said in a trad., أَصْلُ الجِهَادِ وَسِنْخُهُ الرِّبَاطُ فِى سَبِيلِ ا@للّٰهِ i. e. المُرَابَطَةُ عَلَيْهِ [meaning The very essence of fighting against unbelievers, and the first principle thereof, is constancy, or perseverance, or assiduity, in the way, or cause, of God]. (L.) ― -b2- Also The place of growth (مَنْبِت) [i. e. the socket] of a tooth: (K:) or the part of a tooth that enters into the flesh [of the gum]; (Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán; ”) [i. e.] the أَسْنَاخ of the teeth, (S,) or of the central incisors, (Msb,) are the roots thereof (أُصُولُهَا). (S, Msb.) ― -b3- And [The tongue, or tang, of a blade;] the part of a knife, and of a sword, that enters into, or is inserted in, the handle: and the part of an arrow-head that enters into, or is inserted in, the head of the shaft. (L.) ― -b4- And The paroxysm of a fever. (K.) ― -b5- أَسْنَاخُ النُّجُومِ, accord. to IAar, as is related by Th, means The stars that do not make their [temporary] abode in the Mansions of the Moon, which [latter] are called نُجُومُ الأَخْذِ: ISd says, I am not sure whether he mean the أُصُول [a term applied to the seven, or five, planets], or others: some say, [and so IAar is stated in the TA in art. شيخ to have said,] that they are called only أَشْيَاخُ النُّجُومِ [q. v.]. (L, TA. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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