previous next

صَمَجٌ ذ [Lamps of the kind called] قَنَادِيلُ [pl. of قِنْدِيلٌ]: one of which is called صَمَجَةٌ: (S, K: [in the K, the former word is called pl. of the latter; but it is a coll. gen. n:]) an Arabic word, an exception to the rule that ص and ج cannot both occur in a genuine Arabic word: (TA:) or of Greek origin (رُومِىٌّ), arabicized: (S:) EshShemmákh says, “ وَالنَّجْمُ مِثْلُ الصَّمَجِ الرُّومِيَّاتْ
” [And the asterism, meaning the Pleiades, like the Greek lamps]: (S, MF:) but this does not show the word to be Greek, as the epithet may be added for the purpose of restriction. (MF.)

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: