زيج
زِيج The builder's string, or line, (
K in art. زوج, improperly there mentioned,
TA,) which he extends to make even, thereby, the row of stones, or bricks, of the building;
syn. مِطْمَرٌ [
q. v.]: (
TA:) [also called زِيقٌ:] an arabicized word, (
K,) from [the
Pers\.] زِهْ, signifying “ a bowstring: ” so in the “ Shifá el-Ghaleel. ” (
TA.)
b2: Also, as is said in the “ Mefáteeh el-'Uloom,”
[An astronomical almanac; or a set of astronomical tables;] a book, or writing, containing stellar calculations, year by year: in which sense, likewise, it is an arabicized word, from the
Pers\.زِهْ:
pl. زِيَجَةٌ. (
TA.)
b3: And The science of astronomy, or of the celestial sphere. (
TA.) زَائِجَةٌ A four-sided, or round, scheme, made to exhibit the horoscope, or places [or configurations] of the stars at the time of a birth: an astrological term [arabicized from the
Pers\. زَايْچَهْ]: so in the “ Shifá el-Ghaleel,” from the “ Mefáteeh el-'Uloom,” by Er-
Rázee. (
TA.)
