صَّخْر

SaxorN * (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ SaxarN , (S, Msb, K,) the latter on the authority of Yaakoob, (S,) thus sometimes pronounced, (Msb,) Rocks; or great masses of stone: (S:) or great masses of hard stone: (A, K:) and SaxorapN (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and SaxarapN (S, Msb, K) [are the ns. un., signifying] one thereof, (S, A, K,) or these have a more special signification [as meaning a rock and a mass of rock ]: (Msb:) pl. SuxuwrN (S, A, Msb, K) and SuxuwrapN (A, Sgh, L) and [of SaxorapN and SaxarapN ] SaxaraAtN . (Msb, K. [In the latter, SaxorN and SaxarN , as well as SuxuwrN and SaxaraAtN , are improperly termed pls. of Sxrp .]) By Saxorap in the Kur xxxi. 15 is meant a Sxrp that is beneath the ground. (Zj, TA.) And by the Saxorap mentioned in a trad. as being of, or from, Paradise is meant the Sxrp [or rock] of Jerusalem [in the centre of the building now called “ the Dome of the Rock ”]. (TA.)