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شَطَنٌ ذ A rope, (S, Msb, K,) in a general sense: (K:) or a long rope: (Kh, S, K:) or a long and strongly-twisted rope by means of which one draws water: (TA:) pl. أَشْطَانٌ. (S, Msb, K.) Mention is made, in a trad., of a horse as being مَرْبُوطٌ بِشَطَنَيْنِ [i. e. Tied with two ropes, or long ropes, &c.,] because of his strength. (TA.) And one says of a strong-spirited horse, إِِنَّهُ لَيَنْزُو بَيْنَ شَطَنَيْنِ [Verily he leaps between two ropes, or long ropes, &c.]: a saying applied as a prov. to him who exults, or exults greatly, or excessively, and behaves insolently and ungratefully, and is strong. (TA.) An Arab of the desert described a horse (S, Msb) that did not become abraded in the sole of his hoof (so in a copy of the S) by saying, كَأَنَّهُ شَيْطَانٌ فِى أَشْطَانٍ [As though he were a devil in ropes, or long ropes, &c.]. (S, Msb.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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