Ahmad al-Shidyaq - Leg over Leg - Volumes Three and Four

or ḍamaj ,

“a pestilence that affects a person”; it also means “the aroused state of a passive sodomite”

or ʿināj ,

“pain in the backbone”

or faḥaj ,

“pointing toward one another of the foreparts of the feet in walking with splaying out of the heels; fajaj and fakhaj are worse forms of the same”

or lakhaj ,

“the worst form of bleariness of the eye”

or majaj ,

“flaccidity of the corners of the mouth”

or jalaḥ ,

“the retreat of the hair from the sides of the head”

or ṣafaḥ ,

“excessive width of the forehead”

or naṭaf ,

“a disease against which people are cauterized”

or farkaḥah ,

“wide spacing of the buttocks”

or faṭaḥ ,

“breadth of head and tip of the nose”

3.1.7

or falaḥ ,

“a split in the lower lip”

or qādiḥ ,

“erosion of the teeth”

or qalaḥ ,

“yellowing of the teeth”

or kasaḥ ,

“a chronic disease of the hands and legs”

or lajaḥ ,

“fleshy swelling around the eye”

or maraḥ ,

“extreme watering and deterioration of the eye”

or masaḥ ,

“chafing of the inside of the knee due to coarseness of clothing or the rubbing against one another of the thighs; synonym mashaḥ ”

or wadhaḥ ,

“chafing on the inside of the thighs”

or bazakh ,

“concavity of the chest and convexity of the back”

3.1.8

or zullakhah ,

“a pain that affects the back”

or fatakh ,

“flaccidity of the joints, or broadness and length of the hand and foot”

or nuffākh ,

“the eruption of a swelling as the result of the occurrence of a disease”

or jarad ,

“hairlessness”

or darad ,

“toothlessness”

or riddah ,

“recession of the chin”

or suwād ,

“a disease resulting from drinking water”

or qawad ,

“elongation of the neck and back”

or kubād ,

“pain in the liver”

or lahd ,

“a disease in people’s legs and thighs”

3.1.9

or adar ,

“the ādir [active participle], or the maʾdūr [passive participle], is he whose peritoneum bursts, causing his gut to fall into his scrotum…; the verb is adira ”

or bajar ,

“protuberance of the navel and broadness of the belly”

or bakhar ,

“foulness in the mouth”

or bāsūr ,

“too well-known to require definition, plural bawāsīr ” [“piles”]

or ḥathar ,

“pustules; ḥathirat al-ʿayn means ‘red pimples appeared on its lids’”

or ḥadrah ,

“an ulcer that appears on the white of the eyelid”

or ḥuṣr or ḥaṣar ,

“ ḥuṣr is constipation of the bowels; ḥaṣar is dejection, or miserliness, or stammering”

or ḥafar ,

“scaling at the roots of the teeth”

or ḥumrah ,

“swellings of the bubonic type”

or muḥanjar ,

“a disease of the belly”

3.1.10

or ukhayḍir ,

“a disease of the eye”

or dhahar ,

“blackening of the teeth; synonym tadhyīr ”

or zaḥīr ,

“looseness of the bowels”

or zaʿar ,

“scantiness and thinness of the hair”

or zawar ,

“twisting of the throat; the azwar is one who suffers from this… and one who looks from the outer corners of his eyes”

or shatar ,

“the inversion and cracking of the eyelids, upper and lower, or flaccidity of the lower”

or ṣaʿar ,

“smallness of the head”

or ṣafar ,

“a disease of the belly that makes the face turn yellow”

or ẓafar ,

“a disease of the eye”

or ẓahar ,

“a disease of the back”

3.1.11

or ʿawar ,

“too well-known to require definition” [“being one-eyed”]

or taqṭīr ,

“non-retention of the urine”

or qaṣar ,

“stiffness of the neck”

or maʿar ,

“lack of hair”

or nāsūr ,

“a malady of the inner corners of the eyes, or a malady in the environs of the posterior, or a malady of the gums”

or kuzāz ,

“a disease caused by extreme cold”

or sulās ,

“dementia”

or fuqās ,

“a disease of the joints”

or faṭas ,

“the nose’s being squashed on the face”

or qaʿas ,

“convexity of the chest and concavity of the back; antonym of ḥadab (‘hunchbacked-ness’)”

3.1.12

or qafas ,

“largeness of stool”

or qanʿasah ,

“extreme shortness of the neck, as in one with a hunchback”

or kasas ,

“shortness or smallness of the teeth, or their adhering to the gingiva”

or niqris ,

“swelling and pain in the joints of the ankles and toes”

or hawas ,

“a touch of insanity”

or ḥamash ,

“thinness of the legs”

or khafash ,

“smallness of the eyes and weakness of vision (as an inborn defect), or deterioration, without pain, in the eyelids, or having night but not day vision”

or dawash ,

“dimness of vision and smallness of the eye”

or ramash ,

“redness of the eyelids accompanied by a flow of liquid”

or ṭarash ,

“the mildest form of deafness”

3.1.13

or ṭushāsh ,

“a malady like nasal congestion”

or ʿuṭāsh ,

“a disease whose victim cannot quench his thirst”

or ʿamash ,

“weakness of vision accompanied by constant tearing”

or madash ,

“flaccidity of the sinew of the hand, or its having little flesh and being thin”

or namash ,

“white and black spots and blotches on the skin that contrast with the color of the latter”

or bakhaṣ ,

“flesh forming a lump above or below the eyes in the shape of a swelling; tabakhkhuṣ is inversion of the eyelids”

or baraṣ ,

“too well-known to require definition” [“leprosy”]

or taʿaṣ ,

“leg muscle pain caused by walking”

or ḥāṣṣah ,

“a disease that causes the hair to fall out”

or ḥawaṣ ,

“constriction in the outer corners of the eyes or in one of them”

3.1.14

or khawaṣ ,

“sinking of the eyes [into the skull]”

or khayaṣ ,

“smallness of one eye [compared to the other]”

or ramaṣ ,

“foul white matter that collects in the inner corner of the eye”

or shawṣah ,

“pain in the belly, or flatulence that affects the ribs, or swelling in the diaphragm”

or ghamaṣ ,

“dripping ramaṣ [q.v.]”

or qabaṣ ,

“a pain that afflicts the liver as a result of eating dates on an empty stomach, or largeness of the crown of the head”