صنج

صَنْجٌ ذ [ A cymbal; ] a thing made of brass, [ having its fellow of the same kind, ] one of which was struck with the other; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) of a round form: (Mgh, Msb:) such was the instrument of this name known to the Arabs: (S, Mgh:) its use was disapproved: (Mgh:) pl. صُنُوجٌ: which was also applied by the Arabs to the small round things inserted in the hoop of the tambourine (Mgh, L, * Msb) and the like, (L,) of brass, or copper: (Msb:) an arabicized word (S, Mgh, Msb) [app. from the Pers. سَنْج or سِنْج]. ― -b2- Also A certain stringed instrument [ of music ]; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) [app. the kind of harp called by the Persians JَنْG, and by the modern Arabs جُنْك, figured in Note 26 to Ch. iii. of my Translation of the Thousand and One Nights;] an instrument peculiar to the 'Ajam; (S, Mgh, Msb;) but the Arabs sometimes applied the name of صِنْج to this latter instrument: (L:) also an arabicized word when thus applied. (S, Mgh, Msb, K.) ― -b3- صَنْجُ الجِنِّ signifies صَوْتُهَا [app. meaning The clamour of the Jinn, or Genii; or their raising of their voices in singing ]: a phrase used [in this sense] in a verse of El-Kutámee. (TA.)