سِرَاج

siraAjN * a word of well-known meaning; (S, O, K;) i. q. miSobaAHN [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. surujN . (O, Msb, TA.) [See also masorajapN .] ― -b2- [Hence,] the sun is called a siraAj [in the Kur lxxi. 15, and also xxv. 62, and lxxviii. 13], (S, O,) and Als~iraAju , (K,) and siraAju Aln~ahaAri (tropical:) [ The lamp of day ]. (A, TA.) So too is the Prophet. (Kur xxxiii. 45.) 'Omar, also, is called in a trad. siraAju A^aholi Aljan~api (assumed tropical:) [ The lamp of the people of Paradise ]. (TA.) And one says, AlhudiY siraAjN Almuw^ominiyna (tropical:) [ The Kur-án is the lamp of the believers ], (A,) or siraAju Almuw^omini [ the lamp of the believer ]. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, metaphorically, (tropical:) The eye; because of its being often likened to a siraAj . (Har p. 554.)

sar~aAjN * A saddler; i. e. a maker of suruwj [or saddles ]: (O, K, * TA:) or a seller thereof. (TA.) -A2- Also (tropical:) A great, or habitual, liar, (K, TA,) who will not tell thee truly whence he comes, but will tell thee lyingly. (TA.) One says, A_in~ahu sar~aAjN mar~aAjN (tropical:) Verily he is a lying person, (A,) or a great, or habitual, liar, (TA,) who adds, or exaggerates, ( yaziydu ,) in his narration, or talk, or discourse. (A, TA.) And it is used alone, [without mar~aAjN ,] so that one says, rajulN sar~aAjN (tropical:) [ A man who lies much, or habitually, &c.]. (TA.) [See also sad~aAjN .]