سَاجٌ
Root: سوج
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سَاجٌ
[The teak-tree; tectona grandis; to which the name of ساج is applied in Pers.; remarkable for its huge size, and enormous leaves: or the Indian, or Oriental, plane-tree: or the Indian plantain-tree: ] a certain species of tree, of great size, growing to a very great size, that grows only in India, and is conveyed thence to other countries; so they say: Z says, it is a black, heavy, wood, which is brought from India, in pieces made of an oblong form, and squared, and which the woodfretter can hardly, or not at all, wear, or waste; and he says that its pl. is سِيجَانٌ: (Msb: [but this is said in the A only to be pl. of ساج meaning “ a rounded, wide, طَيْلَسَان: ”]) some say that it resembles ebony, but is less black: accord to the A, Noah's ark was made of it: but several authors say that it is related in the Book of the Law revealed to Moses that it was made of the صَنَوْبَر [or pine-tree]; and some say that the صنوبر is a species of the ساج: AHn describes it, on the authority of one who had seen it in its places of growth, as a species of tree that grows to a great size, tall and wide, having leaves like the shields of the Deylem (الدَّيْلَم, q. v.), with one of which leaves a man may cover himself, and it will protect him from the rain, and it has a sweet odour, like the odour of the leaves of the walnut, and is fine and soft, or smooth; the elephants [he says] are fond of it, and of the leaves of the banana, both of which they eat: it is not of the trees that grow in the land of the Arabs, nor does it grow in any country except those of India and the Zenj; nor does any tree grow so tall, nor any so big:
سَاجَةٌ is the n. un.; and its pl. is سَاجَاتٌ: and it signifies a piece of wood of the tree called
ساج, made of an oblong form, and squared, as brought from India; such as is cut and prepared for a foundation and the like: one says, فِى
أَسَاسِ بِنَائِهِ سَاجَةٌ [In the foundation of his building is a piece of wood of the
ساج
cut in an oblong form, and squared]: a ساجة from which a door is cloven, or divided off lengthwise, is called سَلِيجَةٌ: and the term سَاجَةٌ is also applied to the board, or tablet, [of wood of the
ساج,] upon which stand [or rest] the two scales of the balance when one weighs with it.
def.2 Also A [garment of the kind
2 It is also used, by a poet, in the manner of an epithet, as meaning Of the colour termed خُضْرَة [expl. above].
def.2 Also A [garment of the kind
2 It is also used, by a poet, in the manner of an epithet, as meaning Of the colour termed خُضْرَة [expl. above].
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