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شَرْجٌ ذ A place in which water flows from a [stony tract such as is termed] حَرَّة to a soft, or plain, tract; (S, K;) as also ↓ شَرْجَةٌ : (TA:) or the latter signifies [simply] a place in which water flows; and some elide the ة, saying شَرْجٌ: (Msb:) pl. شِرَاجٌ (S, Mgh, Msb, K, expl. in the Mgh agreeably with the former explanation above, and said in the Msb to be pl. of شَرْجَةٌ,) and شُرُوجٌ. (S, K.) -A2- Also A party, or distinct body or class [of men]. (S, K.) One says, أَصْبَحُوا فِى هٰذَا الأَمْرِ شَرْجَيْنِ i. e. [They became, in this affair,] two parties. (S.) And it is said in a trad., أَصْبَحَ النَّاسُ شَرْجَيْنِ فِى السَّفَرِ [The people, or men, became two parties in the journey]; meaning, half of them fasting, and half of them breaking the fast. (TA.) ― -b2- And The like of another; (S, K;) as also ↓ شَرِيجٌ : (O, K:) the latter from the same word as meaning “ a piece of wood [or a branch] that is split into two halves; ” each of which is the شريج of the other. (O.) One says, هٰذَا شَرْجُ هٰذَا This is the like of this. (S.) ― -b3- And A sort, or species. (S, K.) One says, هُمَا شَرْجٌ وَاحِدٌ They two are one sort, or species. (S.) ― -b4- And شَرْجَانِ Any two different colours: (S:) [and] ↓ شَرِيجَانِ signifies [the same, i. e.] two different colours (K, TA) of anything; or, accord. to IAar, two mixed colours, not black and white: (TA:) and ↓ this latter, also, the two lines of the نَيرَانِ [or two ornamental borders] of a [garment of the kind called] بُرْد, (O, K,) one of which is أَخْضَر [here meaning of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour], and the other white or red. (O.) ― -b5- And الشَّرْجُ, like فَلْس [in measure, not to be confounded with الشَّرَجُ], signifies The [perinæum, or] part between the anus and the testicles. (IKtt, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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