Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَاجٍ

Root: سجو

Full Definition

سَاجٍ Still, silent, or quiet: thus applied to the sea [as meaning calm, or unruffled]. And لَيْلَةٌ سَاجِيَةٌ A calm night, in which the wind is still, and such as is not dark: or a night in which the cold has become allayed, and in which the wind and the clouds have become still, and which is not dark. And طَرْفٌ سَاجٍ A still, or motionless, eye: [or] عَيْنٌ سَاجِيَةٌ, accord. to IAar, means an eye that has a languid, or languishing, look; which is an accessory to beauty in women. See also the next preceding paragraph.


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