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شَرَجٌ ذ The loops (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K) of the [leathern receptacle called] عَيْبَة, (S, Mgh, O, Msb,) and of the [tent called] خَيْمَة, (O, TA,) and the like, and of the مُصْحَف [or copy of the Kur-án, &c.]: (TA:) [the loops here meant being such as are inserted one into another, to close a bag &c.: see 4:] pl. أَشْرَاجٌ. (S, Msb.) [And it seems also, from what here follows, to signify A single loop.] ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) The anus: (Msb, TA:) or hence شَرَجُ الدُّبُرِ signifies (assumed tropical:) the anus. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) The vulva of a woman: (O, K:) pl. as above. (TA.) ― -b4- And شَرَجُ الدَّرَاهِمِ [The purse for money]. (M and K in art. صر: in the CK, شَرْج.) -A2- Also A place of expanding of a valley: (S, O, K:) pl. as above. (S.) ― -b2- And The Milky Way in the sky: (S:) or so الشَّرَجُ. (K.) -A3- Also A splitting, or cracking, (اِنْشِقَاقٌ, S, and so in some copies of the K, or شُقَاقٌ, so in other copies of the K and in the O,) in a bow. (S, O, K.) ― -b2- And in a beast, The having one of the two testicles larger than the other. (S, O, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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