سرج

سِرَاجٌ ذ a word of well-known meaning; (S, O, K;) i. q. مِصْبَاحٌ [i. e. A lamp, or its lighted wick, (the latter of which meanings is assigned to both of these words by Jel in xxiv. 35,)] (L, Msb, TA) that gives light by night: (L, TA:) or, properly, a lighted wick; its employment to signify the place thereof [i. e. a lamp, generally a vessel of glass having in its bottom a small glass tube into which the lower part of the wick is inserted, ] being a well-known tropical application: (MF, TA:) pl. سُرُجٌ. (O, Msb, TA.) [See also مَسْرَجَةٌ.] ― -b2- [Hence,] the sun is called a سِرَاج [in the Kur lxxi. 15, and also xxv. 62, and lxxviii. 13], (S, O,) and السِّرَاجُ, (K,) and سِرَاجُ النَّهَارِ (tropical:) [ The lamp of day ]. (A, TA.) So too is the Prophet. (Kur xxxiii. 45.) 'Omar, also, is called in a trad. سِرَاجُ أَهْلِ الجَنَّةِ (assumed tropical:) [ The lamp of the people of Paradise ]. (TA.) And one says, الهُدِى سِرَاجٌ المُؤْمِنِينَ (tropical:) [ The Kur-án is the lamp of the believers ], (A,) or سِرَاجُ المُؤْمِنِ [ the lamp of the believer ]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, metaphorically, (tropical:) The eye; because of its being often likened to a سِرَاج. (Har p. 554.)