جَنَاحٌ

The يَد (S, K) [meaning wing] of a bird or flying thing; (S;) i. e., of a bird or flying thing, the limb that corresponds to the يد of a man: (Msb:) and also the يد [i. e. arm, sometimes also meaning hand, (see a signification of جَنَحَ,)] of a man: (L, TA:) and (K) the upper arm, or arm from the shoulder to the elbow: (Zj, L, K:) each of these is so called because it is on one side of the body: (L:) and the armpit: (K:) plural أَجْنِحَةٌ (S, Msb, K) and أَجْنُحٌ: (IJ, K:) the singular, though masculine, has the latter plural, which properly belongs to a feminine singular [of this form], because جناح is assimilated to رِيشَةٌ; (IJ;) [or rather, I think, to يَدٌ, which is feminine;] but some assert جناح to be both masculine and feminine (MF.) [Hence,] هُوَ مَقْصُوصُ الجَنَاحِ [He has the wing clipped; meaning] (tropical:) he is one who lacks strength or power or ability; he is impotent. (A, TA.) And خَفَضَ لَهُ جَنَاحَهُ (tropical:) [He abased himself to him: lit. he lowered to him his wing: but see an explanation of a similar phrase in the Qur'an, below]. (A.) And رَكِبُوا جَنَاحَىِ الطَّايءِرِ, (Fr, L, K,) in [some of the copies of] the K, الطَّرِيقِ, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) They quitted their homes, or accustomed places. (Fr, L, K.) And فُلَانٌ فِى جَنَاحَىْ طَايءِرٍ Such a one is in a state of disquiet, and confounded, or perplexed, unable to see his right course. (L, A. *) And رَكِبَ فُلَانٌ جَنَاحَىِ النَّعَامَةِ (tropical:) Such a one employed himself vigorously, labouriously, sedulously, or diligently, in an affair; (A, K;) managing well. (K.) And نَحْنُ عَلَى جَنَاحِ السَّفَرِ [lit. We are on the wing of travel; meaning] (tropical:) we are about to travel, or journey. (K, TA.) And جَنَاحُ الفَرَسِ (assumed tropical:) A certain star [ γ] of Pegasus; one of the four bright stars, in Pegasus, which form a square; the other three being that at the extremity of the neck, called عَيْنُ الفَرَسِ, [i. e. a of Pegasus,] that called مَنْكِبُ الفَرَسِ, [ β of Pegasus,] and the star [a of Andromeda] that belongs to both Pegasus and Andromeda. (Kzw.) [And جَنَاحُ سَمَكَةٍ (assumed tropical:) The fin of a fish.] And جَنَاحَا نَصْلٍ (assumed tropical:) The two wings, or blades, of a spear-head or of an arrow-head. (L.) And جَنَاحُ الرَّحَى (assumed tropical:) The wing (نَاعُور) of the mill or mill-stone. (L.) And جَنَاحَا عَسْكَرٍ (tropical:) The two wings of an army. (A, TA) And جَنَاحَا الوَادِى (tropical:) The two sides of the valley (A, L) down which the water runs, on the right and left. (L.) And ثَرِيدَةٌ لَهَا جَنَاحَانِ مِنْ عُرَاقٍ and بِالعُرَاقِ مُجَنَّحَةٌ (tropical:) [A mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth, having two sidegarnishes of bones with some meat remaining upon them]. (A, TA.)