Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

لَجَذَ, (L, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَلْجُذُ}, (Ḳ,) inf. n. لَجْذٌ; (L, Ḳ;) and لَجِذَ, aor. ـَ {يَلْجَذُ}; (Ḳ;) He ate (L, Ḳ) food. (L.)

He (a beast) began to pasture. (L, Ḳ.)

He (a beast) ate herbage: (L:) you say, when beasts have eaten herbage, لُجِذَ الكَلَأُ: (Ṣ, L:) or ate it with the extremity of his tongue, (L, Ḳ,) it being such as did not allow him to take it with his teeth: (L:) accord. to Aṣ, لَجَذَهُ signifies i. q. لَسَّهُ [he plucked it with the fore part of his mouth.] (Ṣ, L.)

He licked: in this sense, the inf. n. is لَجْذٌ and لَجَذٌ: (Ḳ:) you say, لَجِذَ الكَلْبُ الإِنَآءَ, inf. n. لَجْذٌ and لَجَذٌ, the dog licked the vessel (AḤát, Ṣ, Ḳ) inside: (L:) [J says,] I have transcribed it from the Kitáb el-Abwáb, without having heard it: (Ṣ:) and لَجِذَ الكَلْبُ the dog put his tongue into a vessel and lapped; as also لَجِدَ and لَجِنَ. (AA, L.)

He took little. (L, Ḳ.)

He asked often after having been given once: (Ḳ:) لَجَذَنِى, aor. ـُ {يَلْجُذُ}, inf. n. لَجْذٌ, signifies he asked me, and did so much, after I had given him: (Ṣ:) or he asked me after he had asked me and I had given him: (AZ, L:) or he asked me, and did so much, after he had asked me and I had given him. (Aṣ, L.)

He instigated; incited; excited. (Ḳ.)

لِجَاذٌ Glue; syn. غِرَآءٌ [for which Freytag seems to have read إِغْرَآءٌ]. (Ḳ.)

دَابَّةٌ مِلْجَاذٌ A beast of carriage that takes the leguminous herbage with the fore part of its mouth, (Ḳ,) and the extremities of its teeth. (TA.)

نبْتٌ مَجْلُوذٌ A plant which the teeth cannot crop, by reason of its shortness, and which the camels therefore pluck with the fore part of the mouth. (L.)