صَوْمَعَةٌ
Root: صمع
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صَوْمَعَةٌ
A Christian's cell, or chamber, for retirement, or seclusion, having a high and slender head; [the cell of a recluse;] a monk's
مَنَار [which, as here used, means likewise a cell, or chamber, of the kind described above]: the صَوْمَعَة of the Christians is thus called because it is slender in the head; or because contracted; or, as As says, from the epithet أَصْمَعُ, meaning [that it is] pointed at the extremity, [or top,] and contracted: and it is also called
صَوْمَعٌ : the pl. is صَوَامِعُ.
2 And i. q. مِئْذَنَةٌ [q. v.]. (Lh, M and K and TA in art. اذن.)
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2 And i. q. مِئْذَنَةٌ [q. v.]. (Lh, M and K and TA in art. اذن.)
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