شَحَّاذٌ

(tropical:) An importunate beggar: (A, K: *) one should not say شَحَّاثٌ: (K:) the latter is said by IB to be a vulgar corruption; but several authors assert it to be correct, because ذ is changed into ث without any error in speech, as is asserted by El-Khafájee and others; and according to the A, both these words signify as above: (TA in article شحث, and partly repeated in the present article:) [it is said, however, that] شَحَّاذٌ meaning a beggar does not occur in the language of the Arabs. (Har p. 377.)