صَكٌّ
Root: صك
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صَكٌّ
Verbal.Noun of صَكَّ.
def.2 Also a Pers. word arabicized, A certain writing, called in Pers. جَك, or چَكْ; a debenture, or written acknowledgement of a debt of money or property, or of some other thing: and a written statement of a commercial transaction, purchase or sale, transfer, bargain, contract, or the like: i. q. سِجِلٌّ [in this last sense or in the senses next following]: (S and TA in art. سجل:) a سِجِلّ of a قَاضِى [i. e. a sealed, or signed and sealed, statement of a judicial decision; a judicial record; or the record of a judge, in which his sentence is written]: and a written order for the payment of subsistence-money, or of a stipend, salary, pension, or allowance; which some persons used to sell, but the selling of which is forbidden: pl. [of pauc.] أَصُكٌّ and [of mult.] صِكَاكٌ and صُكُوكٌ. [Hence,] لَيْلَةُ الصَّكِّ The night of the middle [of the month] of Shaa- bán; because in it are written the صِكَاك of the allowances of subsistence [of individuals]: also called لَيْلَةُ البَرَآءَةِ. [Hence also] صَكُّ المُسَافِرِ The traveller's pass, given him to prevent any one's offering opposition to him. (A and Mgh in art. جوز.)
def.2 Also a Pers. word arabicized, A certain writing, called in Pers. جَك, or چَكْ; a debenture, or written acknowledgement of a debt of money or property, or of some other thing: and a written statement of a commercial transaction, purchase or sale, transfer, bargain, contract, or the like: i. q. سِجِلٌّ [in this last sense or in the senses next following]: (S and TA in art. سجل:) a سِجِلّ of a قَاضِى [i. e. a sealed, or signed and sealed, statement of a judicial decision; a judicial record; or the record of a judge, in which his sentence is written]: and a written order for the payment of subsistence-money, or of a stipend, salary, pension, or allowance; which some persons used to sell, but the selling of which is forbidden: pl. [of pauc.] أَصُكٌّ and [of mult.] صِكَاكٌ and صُكُوكٌ. [Hence,] لَيْلَةُ الصَّكِّ The night of the middle [of the month] of Shaa- bán; because in it are written the صِكَاك of the allowances of subsistence [of individuals]: also called لَيْلَةُ البَرَآءَةِ. [Hence also] صَكُّ المُسَافِرِ The traveller's pass, given him to prevent any one's offering opposition to him. (A and Mgh in art. جوز.)
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