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شِحْنَةٌ ذ : see what next precedes. ― -b2- [Also] A body of men sufficing for the guarding, controlling, or firm holding, of a province, or city, on the part of the Sultán. (Az, L, K. *) And (K) A troop of horsemen keeping post (S, L, K) in a country or town. (S, L.) IB says that the vulgar usage of this word as syn. with أَمِيرٌ [i. e. A commander or commandant, &c., being used app. only in post-classical times, from the Pers. شَحْنَهْ, meaning in Pers., and hence in Arabic also, a viceroy, prefect, chief of the police, or the like,] is a mistake. (L.) ― -b3- And The quantity of fodder appointed to beasts as sufficing them for a day and a night. (Az, L, K.) -A2- See also what next follows.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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