أَعْرَجُ

Lame, (S, Msb, K,) by nature, (S, K,) or by reason of a chronic ailment: feminine عَرْجَاءُ: (Msb:) plural عُرْجٌ and عُرْجَانٌ. (S, K.)

الأَعْرَجُ is an appellation of The crow; (O, K;) [and] so الأَعْوَرُ الأَعْرَجُ: because of its hopping, or leaping in going, as though shackled. (A, TA.)

And العَرْجَاءُ is an appellation of The female hyena: (S, O, K:) plural عُرْجٌ: the male is not called أَعْرَجُ. (TA.) And ↓ عُرْجُ, determinate, and imperfectly decl., means The female hyenas, so called as though they were a قَبِيلَة [or tribe]; (Sh, O, K;) and so ↓ عُرَاجُ, likewise determinate, and imperfectly decl.: (K:) or, according to IAar, in the phrase ↓ أَبْنَاءُ عُرْجَ in a verse of Aboo-Muk'it ElAsadee, the poet makes the latter word, which is a plural, imperfectly decl. because he means التَّوْحِيد وَالعُرْجَة; as though he regarded it as a singular [proper] name: (L: [i. e., according to Ibr D, because he uses عُرْجَ as a singular proper name, curtailed by poetic license from العُرْجَة: if so, this last word seems here to signify a personification of lameness:]) and according to him (i. e. IAar), one says ↓ هٰذِهِ عُرَاجُ, meaning This is the female hyena [not hyenas]; the latter word imperfectly decl. (O.)

الأَعْرَجُ is also an appellation of A certain deaf, malignant serpent. (TA.) [See also the next paragraph.]

And العُرْجُ signifies Three nights of the first part of the lunar month: [perhaps in allusion to the curved aspect of the moon; though on this ground it might also be applied to three nights of the last part:] mentioned on the authority of Th. (TA.)