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مِصْبَاحٌ ذ A lamp: or its lighted wick: syn. سِرَاجٌ: (S, K:) the latter is the proper meaning (L) [though not the more usual], and is the meaning intended in the Kur xxiv. 35, (Bd, L, Jel,) or a large, bright, or brilliant, سِرَاج: (Bd:) and ↓ مِصْبَحٌ signifies a lamp: (L:) [the pl. of this is مَصَابِحُ: and] the pl. of مِصْبَاحٌ is مَصَابِيحُ. (Msb.) — مَصَابِيحُ النُّجُومِ means أَعْلَامُ الكَوَاكِبِ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) The stars, or asterisms, that are signs of the way to travellers]. (L, TA.) -A2- Also A large [drinking-vessel of the kind called] قَدَح; (AHn, K;) and so ↓ مِصْبَحٌ : (K:) or مَصَابِيحُ [the pl. of the former] signifies the [vessels called] أَقْدَاح [pl. of قَدَح] with which one drinks the morning-draught called صَبُوح. (S.) ― -b2- And A she-camel that remains in the morning in the place where she has lain down, (S, K, TA,) not going forth to pasture, (S, TA,) until the sun has risen high, (S, K, TA,) by reason of her strength (K, TA) and her fatness: (TA:) the quality thus described is approved: (As, S, TA:) and such a she-camel is also termed ↓ مِصْبَحٌ : pl. of the former as above. (TA.) ― -b3- And A wide spear-head; (K, TA;) [app. of such as are termed أَسِنَّةٌ صُبَاحِيَّةٌ;] as also ↓ مِصْبَحٌ . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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