Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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صرب صرج صرح


2. ⇒ صرّج

صرّج, inf. n. تَصْرِيجٌ, He plastered with صَارُوج a watering-trough or tank (Ḳ,* TA), &c.: and sometimes they said شرّق. (TA.)


صَارُوجٌ

صَارُوجٌ Quick lime (نُورَة), and the mixtures thereof; (T, Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ;) with which are plastered watering-troughs, or tanks, and baths,, &c.: (M, TA:) a Pers. word, (Ṣ, TA,) originally چَارُو, (TA,) arabicized, (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) as is every word in which occur both ص and ج, (Ṣ, Mṣb,) or صَمَجٌ is an exception to this rule: (TA in art. صوبج:) sometimes it is called شَارُوقٌ. (TA.)


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