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صرج

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with a specific type of plaster or whitewash, often made with lime, used for coating structures like cisterns, baths, and pools. It also encompasses the act of applying this substance.

Derived headwords

الصَّارُوجnoun
  1. 1.
    Plaster/whitewashboth

    A type of plaster or whitewash, often made with lime and other mixtures, used for coating cisterns, baths, pools, and similar structures.

  2. 2.
    Limeclassical

    Specifically refers to lime (نورة) and its mixtures when used as a coating material.

تَصْرُجُverb
  1. 1.
    to coatboth

    To apply plaster or whitewash to cisterns, baths, or other structures.

تَصْرِيجًاnoun
  1. 1.
    coatingboth

    The act or process of applying plaster or whitewash to a surface.

شَرَقَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to coatclassical

    An alternative, less common verb meaning to coat or plaster something, possibly a variant of تصريج.

Parallel reading

الصاروج النورة وأخلاطها التي تصرج بها البرك وغيرها
Al-saruj is the lime and its mixtures with which cisterns and others are coated.
الصاروج: النورة بأخلاطها تطلى بها الحياض والحمامات
Al-saruj: The lime with its mixtures, with which cisterns and baths are coated.
وهو بالفارسية: جاروف، عرب فقيل: صاروج
And it is in Persian: jaruf, Arabs Arabized it and said: saruj.
وربما قيل: شاروق
And sometimes it is said: sharuq.
صرج الحوض تصريجا
He coated the cistern with plastering.
طلاه به
He coated it with it.
وربما قالوا: شرقه
And sometimes they say: sharqahu (he coated it).