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طَسُّوجٌ ذ A certain weight; (T, TA;) two grains, i. e. grains of barley; (حَبَّتَنِ;) (S;) the quarter of a دَانِق; (S, K;) i. e. the twenty-fourth part of a دِرْهَم; the دانق being the sixth of a درهم: (TA:) pl. طَسَاسِيجُ: (S:) an arabicized word [from the Pers. تَسُو]. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also i. q. نَاحِيَةٌ [as meaning A district, or province, or the like]; (S, Mgh, K;) such as a قَرْيَة [here app. meaning township], and the like: for instance, Ardabeel is of the طَسَاسِيج of Hulwán: (Mgh:) one of the طَسَاسِيج of the Sawád: (T, TA:) the طساسيج of the people of El-Ahwáz are like the مَخَالِيف of the people of El-Yemen and the أَجْنَاد of the people of Syria and the كُوَر of the people of El-'Irák and the رَسَاتِيق of the people of ElJibál: (IB voce مِخْلَافٌ:) in this sense likewise (S) an arabicized word. (S, Mgh, K. *)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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