صَمَجٌ
Root: صمج
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صَمَجٌ
[Lamps of the kind called] قَنَادِيلُ [pl. of قِنْدِيلٌ]: one of which is called صَمَجَةٌ: an Arabic word, an exception to the rule that ص and ج cannot both occur in a genuine Arabic word: or of Greek origin (رُومِىٌّ), arabicized: EshShemmákh says,
[And the asterism, meaning the Pleiades, like the Greek lamps]: but this does not show the word to be Greek, as the epithet may be added for the purpose of restriction.وَالنَّجْمُ مِثْلُ الصَّمَجِ الرُّومِيَّاتْ
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