Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry صرط
صُرَاطٌ A long sword: a dial. var. of سُرَاطٌ [q. v.]. (K.) صِرَاطٌ A road, or way; as also سِرَاطٌ, (S, K,) which is the original; (TA;) and زِرَاطٌ: (S:) [see the second of these three words:] Akh says that the people of El-Hijáz make it fem., and Temeem make it masc. (S and Msb voce زُقَاقٌ, q. v.)
الصِّرَاطُ, also written with س, is likewise [The name of] a bridge extended over the midst of Hell, (K, TA,) sharper than a sword, and thinner than a hair, over which the creatures will pass, the people of Paradise passing over it with their works, some like the blinding lightning, and some like the wind sent forth, and some like coursers, and some running, and some walking, and some dragging themselves along; and a crier will cry, from the lower parts of the empyrean, “ Lower your eyes until Fátimeh, the daughter of Mohammad, (may God bless and save him, and may God be well pleased with her and her two sons,) pass over; ” and the fire will say to the believer, “Pass thou over, O believer, for thy light hath extinguished my flame; ” and thereupon, the feet of the people of the fire will slip. (TA.) مَصْرَطٌ and مِصْرَطٌ: see مَسْرَطٌ.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.
