تَنْجِيسٌ

The name of a thing, either something unclean, or bones of the dead, or a menstruous rag, which used to be hung upon him for whom there was a fear of the jinn's, or genii's, being attached to him: (K:) or the hanging of some such thing upon such a person, as a child or any other; for they used to say that the jinn would not approach those things: (TA:) or a thing which the Arabs used to do, as an amulet, to drive away thereby the [evil] eye: (S:) ↓ مُنَجِّسَةٌ also is the name of a kind of amulet: (IAar:) and ↓ نِجَاسٌ is synonym with تَعْوِيذٌ; [by which may be meant either that it signifies an amulet, or that it is a quasi-verbal noun of 2; for it is said that] it is apparently a subst. from نَجَّسَ لَهُ, or نَجَّسَهُ, as signifying عَوَّذَهُ. (IAar.) See also 2.