Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

سَمْرَجَةٌ [inf. n. of سَمْرَجَ] The collecting of the [tax called] خَرَاج: (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O:) [and the giving, or paying, thereof: for] one says, سَمْرِجْ لَهُ, meaning Give thou to him [the tax so called]. (ISh, O, Ḳ. [It seems to be intentionally indicated in the O and Ḳ, by what immediately precedes the explanation of this phrase, which explanation is أَعْطِهِ, that الخَرَاجَ is to be understood after it.])

سمرج [written without any syll. signs, and therefore probably سَمْرَجْ,] sing. of سَمَارِجُ, (TA,) which signifies Even, or plain, places [or tracts] of land. (T,* Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, TA.*)

سَمَرَّجٌ andسَمَرَّجَةٌ↓, (Ṣ, O, Ḳ,) each a Pers. word arabicized, (Ṣ, O,) [or rather a compound of the Pers. سِهْ “three” and the Arabic مَرَّهْ for مَرَّة “a time,”] The levying of the [tax called] خَرَاج at three several times [or instalments]: (Ṣ, O, Ḳ:) or the name of the day on which payment of the خَرَاج is received; (Ḳ;) thus the former word is expl. by ISh; (O;) the day of the collecting of the خراج; (Ibn-ʼAbbád, ISd, O, TA;) a day when the foreigners, or Persians, (العَجَم) levy the خراج at three several times [or instalments]: also mentioned as written with ش. (TA.)