سوج

سَاجٌ ذ [The teak-tree; tectona grandis; to which the name of ساج is applied in Pers.; remarkable for its huge size, and enormous leaves: or the Indian, or Oriental, plane-tree: or the Indian plantain-tree: (see De Sacy's Chrest. Ar., sec. ed., iii. 473:)] a certain species of tree, (S, A, Mgh, O, Msb, K,) of great size, (Msb,) growing to a very great size, (Mgh,) that grows only in India, and is conveyed thence to other countries; (Mgh, Msb;) so they say: (Mgh:) Z says, (Msb,) it is a black, heavy, wood, which is brought from India, (A, Msb,) in pieces made of an oblong form, and squared, (A,) and which the woodfretter can hardly, or not at all, wear, or waste; (A, Msb;) and he says that its pl. is سِيجَانٌ: (Msb: [but this is said in the A only to be pl. of ساج meaning “ a rounded, wide, طَيْلَسَان: ”]) some say that it resembles ebony, but is less black: (Msb:) accord to the A, Noah's ark was made of it: but several authors say that it is related in the Book of the Law revealed to Moses that it was made of the صَنَوْبَر [or pine-tree]; and some say that the صنوبر is a species of the ساج: (TA:) AHn describes it, (O, TA,) on the authority of one who had seen it in its places of growth, (O,) as a species of tree that grows to a great size, tall and wide, having leaves like the shields of the Deylem (الدَّيْلَم, q. v.), with one of which leaves a man may cover himself, and it will protect him from the rain, and it has a sweet odour, like the odour of the leaves of the walnut, and is fine and soft, or smooth; (O, TA,) the elephants [he says] are fond of it, and of the leaves of the banana, both of which they eat: it is not of the trees that grow in the land of the Arabs, nor does it grow in any country except those of India and the Zenj; nor does any tree grow so tall, nor any so big: (O:) ↓ سَاجَةٌ is the n. un.; and its pl. is سَاجَاتٌ: (Msb:) and it signifies a piece of wood of the tree called ساج, made of an oblong form, and squared, as brought from India; (A, * Mgh, TA;) such as is cut and prepared for a foundation and the like: (Mgh:) one says, فِى أَسَاسِ بِنَائِهِ سَاجَةٌ [ In the foundation of his building is a piece of wood of the ساج cut in an oblong form, and squared ]: (A:) a ساجة from which a door is cloven, or divided off lengthwise, is called سَلِيجَةٌ: (TA:) and the term سَاجَةٌ is also applied to the board, or tablet, [ of wood of the ساج,] upon which stand [ or rest ] the two scales of the balance when one weighs with it. (Ham. p. 818.) -A2- Also A [ garment of the kind called ] طَيْلَسَان of the colour termed خُضْرَة [here meaning a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour ]: (S, A, O, K:) or a black طيلسان: (IAar, O, K:) or a large, thick, or coarse, طيلسان: (TA:) or a طيلسان made of a round form, (A, TA,) and wide: (A:) or a طيلسان hollowed out in the middle (مُقَوَّرٌ); so woven: (Az, O, Msb:) this last is said to be meant in a trad. in which it is said that the Prophet used to wear in war such قَلَانِس [pl. of قَلَنْسُوَةٌ, q. v.,] as were [made] of سِيجَان: (TA:) سِيجَانٌ is the pl.: (T, S, A, O, Msb:) the dim. is ↓ سُوَيْجٌ. (TA.) It is tropically applied to signify (tropical:) A [ garment of the kind called ] كِسَاآء made of a square form, or four-sided; and is described as a sort of مِلْحَفَة, woven. (TA.) As meaning a طيلسان, it is said by some, that its ا is originally ى. (L, TA.) ― -b2- It is also used, by a poet, in the manner of an epithet, as meaning Of the colour termed خُضْرَة [expl. above]. (TA.)