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لُجَّةٌ

Root: لج

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لُجَّةٌ and لُجٌّ The main body of water, or of the sea: [the deep:] or the depth, or deep, of the sea, of which the bottom cannot be reached; the fathomless deep: also, لُجَّةٌ and بَحْرٍ a great expanse of water, or sea, of which the extremities cannot be seen: pl. لُجٌّ and لُجَجٌ and لِجَاجٌ; the last pl. of لُجَّةٌ.
2 فُلَانٌ لُجَّةٌ وَاسِعَةٌ [Such a one is a wide fathomless deep]: a phrase by which one is likened to a sea, in amplitude.
3 كَأَنَّ عَيْنَهُ لُجَّةٌ [As though his eye were a fathomless sea]: i. e., intensely black.
4 الظُّعْنُ تَسْبَحُ السَّرَابِ فِى The women in the camel-litters swim in the great expanse of mirage.
5 لُجَّةُ الظَّلَامِ The depth of the darkness.
6 اللَّيْلِ The depth of night; its intense darkness and blackness.
7 جَمَلُ أَدْهَمُ لُجٌّ A deep black, or intensely black, camel.
8 لُجَّةٌ and لُجٌّ A numerous assembly, company, troop, or congregated body: from لُجَّةٌ with reference to the sea.
9 لُجَّةٌ أَمْرٍ The main part of an affair.


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