برج
1 بَرِجَ [written in the
TA without the vowel-signs, but the context seems to show that it is thus, and that the
inf. n. is بَرَجٌ] It (anything) was, or became, apparent, manifest, or conspicuous, and high, or elevated: whence بُرْجٌ, applied to a certain kind of structure. (
TA.)
b2: بَرِجَ, [
aor. ـَ
inf. n. بَرَجٌ, [also signifies] He had that quality of the eye which is termed بَرَجٌ, explained below. (
M,
TA.)
b3: Also, (
K,) or بَرِجَ أَمْرُهُ, (
TA,)
aor. ـَ His state, condition, or case, became ample in respect of eating and drinking. (
IAar,
K,
TA.) 2 بَرَّجَ see 4.
4 ابرج He (a man,
TA) built a بُرْج [or tower, &c.]; as also ↓ برّج,
inf. n. تَبْرِيجٌ. (
K.) 5 تَبَرَّجَتْ She (a woman) showed, or displayed, her finery, or ornaments, (
S,
Msb,
K,) and beauties of person or form or countenance, (
S,
Msb,) to men, (
S,
K,) or to strangers, or men distantly related to her; (
Msb;) to do which is culpable; but to do so to the husband is not: (
TA:) or she showed her face: or she showed the beauties of her neck and face: or she did so exhibiting a pretty look: (
TA:) or she showed, or displayed, her finery, or ornaments, and what excites a man's lust. (A boo-Is-hák,
TA.)
Fr, referring to verse 33 of ch. xxxiii. of the
Kur, says that in the time when Abraham was born, the women used to wear a shirt of pearls, not sewed at the two sides; or, as some say, they used to wear garments which did not conceal their persons. (
TA.) بُرْجٌ [Gr. πύργος, (Golius,) A tower;] an angle,
syn. رُكْن, (
S,
K,) of a fortress, (
S,) or of a city: (
TA:) and sometimes a fortress itself: (
S,
K:) so called from its conspicuousness and construction and height: (
TA: [see 1:]) or the primary signification of برج is strength; whence أَبْرَجُ in a sense explained below: (
Har p. 286:)
pl. [of mult.] بُرُوجٌ and [of pauc.] أَبْرَاجٌ: (
S:) the بُرُوجٌ of the wall of a city or fortress are chambers (بُيُوت [meaning towers]) built upon the wall: and such chambers (بيوت) built upon the sides of the angles of a قَصْر [i. e. pavilion or palace &c.] are sometimes thus called. (
Lth.) [Hence,] بُرْجُ حَمَامٍ [A pigeon-turret; a pigeon-house; being generally constructed in the form of a turret, or of a sugar-loaf;] a lodging-place of pigeons:
pl. as above. (
Msb.)
b2: Also (assumed
tropical:) [A sign of the Zodiac;] one of the بُرُوج of the heaven; (
S,
K;) which are twelve in number; every one having a distinct name: (
TA:) the Arabs in ancient times did not know them: (
Ham p. 560:)
pl. أَبْرَاجٌ as well as بُرُوجٌ: (
Msb,
TA:) these are meant by the بُرُوج mentioned in the
Kur xv. 16 and xxv. 62 and lxxxv. 1: (
Bd,
Jel:) or in the last of these instances, (
Bd,) by the بروج in the heaven are meant the Mansions of the Moon: (
Bd,
Msb:) or the stars or asterisms or constellations: (
TA:) or the great stars or asterisms or constellations; (
Bd,
Msb;) and so,
accord. to
Zj, in the second of the said passages of the
Kur: (
TA:) or the gates of heaven: (
Bd,
Msb:) or, as some say,
i. q. قُصُور [i. e. pavilions &c.]. (
TA.) بَرَجٌ Such a constitution of the eye that the white entirely surrounds the black, (
S,
M,
K,) no part of the black being concealed: (
S,
M:) or width of the eye: or width of the white of the eye, and largeness of the eyeball, and beauty of the black part: or clearness of the white and black parts theeeof: (
M,
TA:) or width of the eye, and largeness of the eyeball: (
Ham p. 560:) or width of the eye with intense whiteness of the person: (
TA:) and distance between the eyebrows. (
L,
TA.) [See also بَلَجٌ.]
A2: Goodly, elegant, or pretty; beautiful of face: or [so in copies of the
K, and in the
TA, but in the
CK “and”] shining, or splendid; conspicuous; and well known. (
K.) خُلُقٌ بَارِجٌ A large, or liberal, disposition;
syn. وَاسِعٌ. (
Ham p. 560.) أَبْرَاجٌ A man having that quality of the eye which is termed بَرَجٌ: (
M,
TA:)
fem. بَرْجَآءُ; applied to a woman; (
S) and also to an eye (عَيْنٌ) having the quality termed بَرَجٌ: (
M,
TA:)
pl. بُرْجٌ. (
Ham p. 560.)
A2: هٰذَا أَبْرَجُ مِنْ هٰذَا This is stronger than this. (
Har p. 286.) إِبْرِيجٌ The vessel, or receptacle, [generally a skin,] in which milk is churned, or beaten and agitated, or in which the butter of the milk is extracted, or fetched out, by putting water in it, and agitating it;
syn. مِمْخَضَةٌ. (
S,
K.) ثَوْبٌ مُبَرَّجٌ A garment whereon are figures of بُرُوج [or towers]: (
Zj,
TA:) or whereon are depicted figures resembling the بُرُوج [or towers] of the wall of a city or the like: (
T,
A,
TA:) or figured with eyes, of the garments termed حُلَلٌ; from البَرَجُ (
S.)
