عَاجٌ
1.
, as an epithet applied to a she-camel, Pliable; synonym لَيِّنَةٌ الأَعْطَافِ, or لَيِّنَةُ الاِنْعِطَافِ, according to different copies of the K; and by the latter words is explained (but not in the K)
عَايءِجَةٌ, as so applied: in the L, عَاجٌ is explained as meaning tractable, submissive, or manageable; synonym مِذْعَانٌ: (TA:) or مِذْعَانُ السَّيْرِ لَيِّنَةُ الاِنْعِطَافِ (thus in the O:) and it is said to be without a parallel in respect of the dropping of the [feminine termination] ة, whether its original measure be فَعِلٌ or فَاعِلٌ [?]. (TA.)
2.
Also [Ivory;] elephant's bone; (S, O, K;) or [rather] only elephant's tusk; (Lth, Msb, TA;) thus say ISd and Kz: (TA:) n. un. with ة [signifying a piece of ivory]: (S, O:) of its properties are these: that if seed-produce or trees be fumigated with it, worms will not approach them; and the woman who drinks of it every day two drachms with water and honey, if compressed after seven days, conceives. (K.)
3.
And Tortoise-shell; synonym ذَبْلٌ [q. v.]; (O, K;) i. e. (O) the back [or shell] of the sea-tortoise [or turtle]: (O, Msb:) i. q.
مَسَكٌ: (Sh, L:) or a thing that is made from the back of the sea-tortoise: (L:) and it is said that the Arabs called any [sort of] bone by this name: n. un. with ة. (TA.) The Prophet is related to have had a comb of عاج, i. e. ذَبْل: (L:) and he is said to have ordered to purchase for Fátimeh a pair of bracelets of عاج, by which he meant not what is turned of elephants' tusks, for their tusks are مَيْتَة, [i. e. they are taken from an animal of which the flesh is unlawful food,] but ذبل: (O, * L, Msb: *) the عاج of the elephant is impure according to EshSháfi'ee, but pure according to Aboo-Haneefeh. (L.)
4.
Also Bracelets of
عاج, as distinguished from ذَبْل, [i. e. of ivory: and probably of tortoise-shell also:] (ISh:) n. un. with ة. (TA in article جوج.)
5.
عَاجِ, (S, O, L, K,) indecl., with kesr for its termination, (L, K,) as a determinate noun; and عَاجٍ, with tenween, as an indeterminate noun; (L;) A cry by which a she-camel is chidden: (S, O, L, K:) Az says, in chiding a she-camel, one says عَاجِ, without tenween; and if he please, عَاجْ, with jezm, as though a pause were imagined to be made after it: or, according to A'Obeyd, one says to her عَاجٍ, and جَاهٍ, with tenween: [but see article جوه:] according to AHeyth, a word of this kind is originally mejzoom; but in the case of a rhyme, [and in any case of poetical necessity,] it may be makhfood. (TA.) [See also article عج.]