Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

مَارِجٌ

Root: مرج

Full Definition

مَارِجٌ Mixture, syn. خَلْطٌ: [as though one of the few inf. ns. of the measure فَاعِلٌ, like قَائِمٌ: but it is said in the L to be a subst., like كَاهِلٌ and غَارِبٌ, and evidently signifies a mixture, or that which is mixed; syn. خِلْطٌ].
2 مَارِجٌ مِنْ نَارٍ, as occurring in the Kur., [lv., 14,] A mixture (خِلْطٌ, L) of fire: or flame mixed with the black substance of fire: or flame of fire: or fire without smoke, whereof was created El-Jánn, i. e., Iblees, the father of the Jinn, or Genii, or the Jinn collectively: or fire دون الحجاب, [app. meaning below the veil, or that which conceals the lowest heaven, and the angels, from the jinn, or genii, who when they attempt to overhear the conversation of the angels, are smitten by the angels pursuing them with thunderbolts,] of which the thunderbolts consists.
3 See مَرِيجٌ.


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