صَاعِقَةٌ
Root: صعق
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صَاعِقَةٌ
[A thunderbolt; i. e.] a thing descending from the thunder, that smites not anything but it alters it and burns it: or fire that falls from the sky, in vehement thunder: or fire that God sends with vehement thunder: or the scourge (مِخْرَاق) that is in the hand of [the angel who is] the driver of the clouds, and that comes not upon anything but it burns it: or a vehement sound from a thundering with which falls a piece of fire: or the sound of thunder: Wahb Ibn-Munebbih, being asked respecting it, whether it were a tangible thing or fire or what else, answered that he thought no one knew it except God: accord. to some, it signifies also the cry, or vehement cry, or shout, [that is an efficient] of punishment: and death; so accord. to Katádeh and Mukátil: or a cause of death: and any destructive punishment: and
صَعْقَةٌ and صَاقِعَةٌ are dial. vars. thereof: the pl. is صَوَاعِقُ.
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