سنج

سَنْجَةٌ ذ , as also صَنْجَةٌ, but the former is the more chaste, (T, O, Msb, K,) accord to Fr, (O,) because ص and ج do not both occur in any [genuine] Arabic word, (Msb,) or the former only is allowable accord. to Fr, (T, Msb,) or, accord. to ISk, (T, O, Msb, and S in art. صنج,) and IKt, (T, Msb,) the latter only is allowable; (T, O, Msb, and S and O in art. صنج;) an arabicized word, (O, Msb, and S and A and K in art. صنج,) from [the Pers.] سنك [or سَنْGْ, as meaning “ a weight ”]; (O;) [or rather from the Pers. سَنْجَهْ meaning “ a balance ” and “ a weight; ”] i. q. مِيزَانٌ [ A balance ]: (A in art. صنج:) [in the present day, applied to a steel-yard: and also, more commonly, (agreeably with the explanation of صَنْجَةٌ in the MA,) to a weight of a balance; which last seems to be intended in the S and O and Msb and K &c. by the expressions سَنْجَةُ المِيزَانِ and صَنْجَتُهُ, unless these expressions be instances of what is termed اـِضَافَةُ الشَّىْءِ اـِلَى نَفْسِهِ (i. e. the prefixing a noun, governing the gen. case, to another noun signifying the same thing), which I think unlikely:] pl. سِنَجٌ (A, Msb) and سَنَجَاتٌ. (Msb.) One says, اِتَّزَنَ منّى بِالسَّنْجَة الرَّاجِحَةِ [ He received by weight from me with the inclining balance, or with the preponderating weight ], and بِالسِّنَجِ الوَافِيَةِ [ with the full weights ]. (A.) And a rájiz says, كَأَنَّهَا سَنْجَةُ أَلْفٍ رَاجِحَهْ [ As though it, or she, were the weight of a thousand, preponderating ]: or, as some relate it, صَنْجَةٌ. (O.)