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طَاغِيَةٌ ذ i. q. جَبَّارٌ [i. e. Insolent, tyrannical, &c.]; (K, TA;) who deviates from the right way or course, or trangresses the just limit: (TA:) and stupid, or foolish; proud; (K, TA;) wrongful, unjust, or injurious, in conduct: (TA:) or one who cares not what he does, devouring [the property of] men, and oppressing them, and who is not turned from his course by a disposition to shun sin or crime, nor by fear. (Sh, TA.) [Hence,] الطَّاغِيَةُ is an appellation of The king of the رُوم [or Greeks of the Lower Empire]; (S, K, TA;) applied to him as a surname because of his much exorbitance, and corrupt conduct. (TA.) ― -b2- And A thunderbolt; syn. صَاعِقَةٌ. (S, K.) ― -b3- And The cry of punishment; by which Thamood were destroyed, as mentioned in the Kur [lxix. 5]: (S, TA:) or, accord. to Zj, it there means their طُغْيَان [or exorbitance]; being a subst. like عَافِيَةٌ and عَاقِبَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- Also The flood denoted by the words of the Kur [lxix. 11] إِِنَّا لَمَّا طَغَى المَآءُ. (Er-Rághib, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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