عِلِّيُّونَ

, [said to be] a plural of which the singular is ↓ عِلِّىٌّ, (K and TA in this article and in article عل,) or ↓ عِلِّيَّةٌ or عُلِّيَّةٌ, or a plural having no singular, (K and TA in article عل,) [or rather it is from a Hebr. word, as I have stated in article عل,] A place in the Seventh Heaven, to which ascend the souls of the believers: (K, TA:) or the highest of the places: or a certain thing above another thing; [a word] of which the singular is not known, nor the feminine: or loftiness above loftiness: or the Seventh Heaven [altogether]: or the دِيوَان [or register, or place of reckoning,] of the guardian angels, to which are brought up the reports of the deeds of the righteous: (TA:) or Paradise: or the right leg [or pillar] of the عَرْش [which is vulgarly held to mean the throne of God]: or [the lote-tree called] سِدْرَةُ المُنْتَهَى [respecting which see article سدر]. (Har p. 5.) [See also other explanations in article عل.]