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صك

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

صَكٌّ ذ inf. n. of صَكَّ. (Mgh, * Msb, TA.) -A2- Also a Pers. word (S, O) arabicized, (S, Mgh, O, TA,) A certain writing, (S, O, K, *) called in Pers. جَك, (O,) or Jَكْ; (TA;) a debenture, or written acknowledgement of a debt (Mgh, Msb) of money or property, or of some other thing: (Mgh:) and a written statement of a commercial transaction, purchase or sale, transfer, bargain, contract, or the like: (Msb, TA:) i. q. سِجِلٌّ [in this last sense or in the senses next following]: (S and TA in art. سجل:) a سِجِلّ of a قَاضِى [i. e. a sealed, or signed and sealed, statement of a judicial decision; a judicial record; or the record of a judge, in which his sentence is written ]: (KL:) and a written order for the payment of subsistence-money, or of a stipend, salary, pension, or allowance; which some persons used to sell, but the selling of which is forbidden: (Msb, TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَصُكٌّ and [of mult.] صِكَاكٌ and صُكُوكٌ. (S, O, Msb, K.) [Hence,] لَيْلَةُ الصَّكِّ The night of the middle [ of the month ] of Shaa- bán; because in it are written the صِكَاك of the allowances of subsistence [of individuals]: also called لَيْلَةُ البَرَاآءَةِ. (O, TA.) [Hence also] صَكُّ المُسَافِرِ The traveller's pass, given him to prevent any one's offering opposition to him. (A and Mgh in art. جوز.)

Derived headwords

صَكٌّ
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لَيْلَةُ الصَّكِّ
لَيْلَةُ البَرَاآءَةِ