سِرَاجٌ
Root: سرج
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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
3 Also, metaphorically,
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
3 Also, metaphorically,
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