لج

لُجَّةٌ ذ and ↓ لُجٌّ The main body of water, (S, K,) or of the sea: [the deep: ] or the depth, or deep, of the sea, of which the bottom cannot be reached; the fathomless deep: (L:) also, لُجَّةٌ (TA) and بَحْرٍ ↓ لُجُّ (L) a great expanse of water, or sea, of which the extremities cannot be seen: (L, TA:) pl. لُجٌّ and لُجَجٌ and لِجَاجٌ; the last pl. of لُجَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- فُلَانٌ لُجَّةٌ وَاسِعَةٌ (tropical:) [ Such a one is a wide fathomless deep ]: a phrase by which one is likened to a sea, in amplitude. (TA.) ― -b3- كَأَنَّ عَيْنَهُ لُجَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) [ As though his eye were a fathomless sea ]: i. e., intensely black. (L.) ― -b4- الظُّعْنُ تَسْبَحُ السَّرَابِ ↓ فِى لُجِّ (tropical:) The women in the camel-litters swim in the great expanse of mirage. (TA.) ― -b5- لُجَّةُ الظَّلَامِ (tropical:) The depth of the darkness. (TA.) ― -b6- اللَّيْلِ ↓ لُجُّ (assumed tropical:) The depth of night; its intense darkness and blackness. (TA.) ― -b7- جَمَلُ أَدْهَمُ لُجٌّ (assumed tropical:) A deep black, or intensely black, camel. (K.) ― -b8- لُجَّةٌ and ↓ لُجٌّ (tropical:) A numerous assembly, company, troop, or congregated body: (K:) from لُجَّةٌ with reference to the sea. (TA.) ― -b9- لُجَّةٌ أَمْرٍ (assumed tropical:) The main part of an affair. (TA.)