Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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زيت زيج زيح


زِيج

زِيج The builder's string, or line, (Ḳ in art. زوج, improperly there mentioned, TA,) which he extends to make even, thereby, the row of stones, or bricks, of the building; syn. مِطْمَرٌ [q. v.]: (TA:) [also called زِيقٌ:] an arabicized word, (Ḳ,) from [the Pers.] زِهْ, signifying “a bowstring:” so in the “Shifá el-Ghaleel.” (TA.)

Root: زيج - Entry: زِيج Signification: A2

Also, as is said in the “Mefáteeh el-'Uloom,” [An astronomical almanac; or a set of astronomical tables;] a book, or writing, containing stellar calculations, year by year: in which sense, likewise, it is an arabicized word, from the Pers. زِهْ: pl. زِيَجَةٌ. (TA.)

Root: زيج - Entry: زِيج Signification: A3

And The science of astronomy, or of the celestial sphere. (TA.)


زَائِجَةٌ

زَائِجَةٌ A four-sided, or round, scheme, made to exhibit the horoscope, or places [or configurations] of the stars at the time of a birth: an astrological term [arabicized from the Pers. زَايْچَهْ]: so in the “Shifá el-Ghaleel,” from the “Mefáteeh el- 'Uloom,” by Er-Rázee. (TA.)


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