سِرَاجٌ

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سِرَاجٌ a word of well-known meaning; i. q. مِصْبَاحٌ [i. e. A lamp, or its lighted wick, ] that gives light by night: or, properly, a lighted wick; its employment to signify the place thereof [i. e. a lamp, generally a vessel of glass having in its bottom a small glass tube into which the lower part of the wick is inserted,] being a well-known tropical application: pl. سُرُجٌ. [See also مَسْرَجَةٌ.]
2 [Hence,] the sun is called a سِرَاج [in the Kur lxxi. 15, and also xxv. 62, and lxxviii. 13], and السِّرَاجُ, and سِرَاجُ النَّهَارِ [The lamp of day]. So too is the Prophet. 'Omar, also, is called in a trad. سِرَاجُ أَهْلِ الجَنَّةِ [The lamp of the people of Paradise]. And one says, الهُدِى سِرَاجٌ المُؤْمِنِينَ [The Kur-án is the lamp of the believers], or سِرَاجُ المُؤْمِنِ [the lamp of the believer].
3 Also, metaphorically, The eye; because of its being often likened to a سِرَاج.

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