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صَوْمَعَةٌ ذ A Christian's cell, or chamber, (K, KL,) for retirement, or seclusion, having a high and slender head; (KL;) [the cell of a recluse;] a monk's مَنَار [which, as here used, means likewise a cell, or chamber, of the kind described above]: (TA:) the صَوْمَعَة of the Christians is thus called because it is slender in the head; (S, O, K;) or because contracted; (Msb;) or, as As says, from the epithet أَصْمَعُ, meaning [that it is] pointed at the extremity, [or top,] and contracted: (TA:) and it is also called ↓ صَوْمَعٌ : (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) the pl. is صَوَامِعُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- And i. q. مِئْذَنَةٌ [q. v.]. (Lh, M and K and TA in art. اذن.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) The upper, or uppermost, part of [a mess of] ثَرِيد [or crumbled bread moistened with broth]: (K, TA:) and the body thereof: a ثريدة [or mess of crumbled bread with broth] is said to be thus called, when it is made pointed in its head, and made even. (TA.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) A بُرْنُس [or garment with a pointed hood]: (K, TA:) Aboo- 'Alee says, (TA,) صَوَامِعُ signifies بَرَانِس; (O, TA;) without mentioning a sing. thereof. (TA.) ― -b5- And (assumed tropical:) The eagle is thus termed, because always upon the highest place to which it can ascend. (O, * K, * TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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