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علو

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

عِلِّيُّونَ ذ , [said to be] a pl. of which the sing. is ↓ عِلِّىٌّ, (K and TA in this art. and in art. عل,) or ↓ عِلِّيَّةٌ or عُلِّيَّةٌ, or a pl. having no sing., (K and TA in art. عل,) [or rather it is from a Hebr. word, as I have stated in art. عل,] A place in the Seventh Heaven, to which ascend the souls of the believers: (K, TA:) or the highest of the places: or a certain thing above another thing; [a word] of which the sing. is not known, nor the fem.: or loftiness above loftiness: or the Seventh Heaven [altogether]: or the دِيوَان [or register, or place of reckoning, ] of the guardian angels, to which are brought up the reports of the deeds of the righteous: (TA:) or Paradise: or the right leg [or pillar ] of the عَرْش [which is vulgarly held to mean the throne of God ]: or [ the lote-tree called ] سِدْرَةُ المُنْتَهَى [respecting which see art. سدر]. (Har p. 5.) [See also other explanations in art. عل.]

Derived headwords

عِلِّيُّونَ
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سِدْرَةُ المُنْتَهَى