كسج
1 كسج, [
app. كَسِجَ,
aor. ـَ
inf. n. كسج, [
app. كَسَجٌ,] He had no beard grown; [was naturally beardless]. From this it would seem that كوسج is an Arabic word. (
IKoot,
Msb.)
Q. Q. 1 كَوْسَجَ He was, or become, what is termed كَوْسَجٌ; (
K;) from which latter word the verb is derived. (Shifa el-Ghaleel.)
Q. Q. 2 مَنْ طَانَتْ لِحْيَتُهُ تَكَوْسَجَ عَقْلُهُ (assumed
tropical:) [He whose beard becometh long, his intellect becometh small.] (
TA.) كَوْسَجٌ (
Th,
S,
K, &c.) and كُوسَجٌ, (
Fr,
K,) thus pronounced by some of the Arabs agreeably with its Persian original, (
Fr,) but this latter form is disapproved by Yaakoob and
ISk and
IDrst, (
TA,) and
AHei says that صُوبَجٌ and سُوسَنٌ are the only words of the measure فُوعَلٌ, (
MF,) and كُوسُجٌ, (Ibn-Hishám El-Lakhmee,) a more strange form than that immediately preceding, (
MF,) a word of well-known meaning, (
K,) A man having no hair upon the side of his face [but only upon his chin]; (
M;)
i. q. أَثَطُّ; (
M,
S;) whose cheeks are clear of hair; (Expositions of the
Fs) [used in the present day to signify having a scanty, or small, beard, and that only on the chin:] an arabicized word, (
S, &c,) originally كوسق, (
Msb,) [or rather كُوسَهْ, which is Persian].
b2: Also, Deficient in the teeth: (
As,
K:) from the Persian كوزه, (
Sb,) [or rather كُوسَهْ]: [
pl. كَوَسِجُ, occurring in the
TA in art. ثط.] A woman said to her husband Thou art كوسج: to which he replied, if I be كوسج, thou art divorced. And the matter being referred to the Imám Aboo-Haneefeh, he said, Let his teeth be numbered; and if they be twenty-eight, he is كوسج, and his wife is divorced from him; but if they be thirty-two, he is not so, and she is not divorced. And they were numbered, and found to be thirty-two (
MF.)
b3: Also, [The Xiphias, or sword-fish;] a certain fish (of the sea,
S) that has a snout like a saw, (
S,
K,) and eats men;
i. q. لَخْمٌ, (
TA,) and جَمَلُ المَآءِ, (
Mgh in art. جمل,) or جَمَلُ البَحْرِ. (
TA in that art.)
b4: Also, A slow hackney, or nag. (
A,
K.)
