موز
مَوْزٌ A certain kind of tree, (
Mgh,) or fruit, (
Msb,
K,) well known; (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K;) [the fruit of the banana-tree, or musa paradisiaca;]
i. q. طَلْحٌ [in one of the acceptations of this latter word]: (
Msb:) it is lenitive, diuretic, provocative of venery, and augments the spermatic fluid and the phlegm and the yellow bile, and the eating much of it is very oppressive, (
K,) for it is slow of digestion: (
TA:) the tree grows in the manner of the بَرْدِىّ, [i. e., papyrus, or perhaps other rushes,] and has a long and broad leaf, which may be three cubits by two cubits, (
AHn,
Mgh,
TA,) the
مَوْز [i. e., the fruit] is found, where it grows, throughout the whole year, (
AHn, as cited by 'Abd-El-Lateef,) and there may be on one of its racemes from thirty to five hundred fruits; (
AHn,
Mgh,
K,
TA;) this is seen in the districts of Makdishoo [between Abyssinia and the country of the Zenj]; (
TA;) and when this is the case, the raceme is propped up; (
AHn,
Mgh;) it rises to the height of the stature of a man, [and higher,] and its offsets continually grow around it, every one of them smaller than another; and when it has produced its fruit, the mother-tree is cut down at the foot, and its offset that has attained to its height fructifies, and becomes a mother, the rest remaining its offsets, and thus it continues: whence the saying of Ash'ab, to his son, as related by
As, Wherefore dost thou not become like me? to which he answered, Such as I is like the
مَوْزَــة, which does not attain to a good state until its mother dies. (
AHn,
TA.)
مَوْزَــةٌ is the
n. un. (
S,
Msb.) مَوَّازٌ A seller of
مَوْز [or fruit of the bananatree]. (
K.)