عَجْوَةٌ

(S, K, &c.) and ↓ عَجَاوَةٌ and ↓ عَجَايَةٌ, or ↓ عُجَاوَةٌ and ↓ عُجَايَةٌ, (according to different copies of the K, [but in the TA these two words are explained only as in another paragraph which will be found below,]) A sort of dates in El-Medeeneh, (S, K,) of the best kind, the palm-tree of which is called لِينَةٌ; (S; [or, according to Fr and Akh, cited in the TA in article لون, the term لِينَةٌ is applied to a palm-tree but not to that of the عَجْوَة;]) said to be from what was planted by the hand of the Prophet; according to IAth, they are larger than the صَيْحَانِىّ [q. v.], inclining to blackness; but according to Az, the عَجْوَة in El-Medeeneh are the صَيْحَانِيَّة, and there are sorts of the عجوة there that have not the sweetness nor the odour nor the fulness of the صيحانيّة: (TA:) or the best of dates: (Mgh:) and, in El-Hijáz, the dates that are stuffed (مَحْشِىّ) [or pressed into a compact mass, while moist, in the receptacle of palm-leaves or skin, as are the dates called عَجْوَة in the present day]; (K, TA;) they are termed أُمُّ التَّمْرِ [lit. the mother of dates, apparently because many persons keep a stock thereof], to which recourse is had, like the [dates called] شِهْرِيز in El-Basrah. (TA.)