ازج

أَزَجٌ ذ A certain kind of structure; (S, K;) or a house, or chamber, built in a long, or an oblong, form; (Mgh, L, Msb;) called in Persian أُوِسْتَانٌ, (Mgh, L,) and also, in the same language, سَغْ, and كَمَرْ: (Mgh:) [i. e. an oblong, arched, or vaulted, structure or edifice; ( such as a bridge; see قَنْطَرَةٌ;) a portico, gallery, or piazza; accord. to Golius and Freytag, ædificii genus oblongum et fornicatum, porticus instar; to which Freytag adds, portæ arcus superior: ] or, accord. to some, a roof: (Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] اآزَاجٌ (S, Msb, K) and اآزُجٌ (S, K) and [of mult.] اـِزَجَةٌ. (K.)