زِيج

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زِيج The builder's string, or line, (K in art. زوج, improperly there mentioned, TA,) which he extends to make even, thereby, the row of stones, or bricks, of the building; syn. مِطْمَرٌ [q. v.]: [also called زِيقٌ:] an arabicized word, from [the Pers.] زِهْ, signifying “ a bowstring: ” so in the “ Shifá el-Ghaleel. ”
2 Also, as is said in the “ Mefáteeh el-'Uloom, ” [An astronomical almanac; or a set of astronomical tables;] a book, or writing, containing stellar calculations, year by year: in which sense, likewise, it is an arabicized word, from the Pers. زِهْ: pl. زِيَجَةٌ.
3 And The science of astronomy, or of the celestial sphere.

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