لُجَّةٌ

and ↓ لُجٌّ The main body of water, (S, K,) or of the sea: [the deep:] or the depth, or deep, of the sea, of which the bottom cannot be reached; the fathomless deep: (L:) also, لُجَّةٌ (TA) and بَحْرٍ ↓ لُجُّ (L) a great expanse of water, or sea, of which the extremities cannot be seen: (L, TA:) plural لُجٌّ and لُجَجٌ and لِجَاجٌ; the last plural of لُجَّةٌ. (TA.)

فُلَانٌ لُجَّةٌ وَاسِعَةٌ (tropical:) [Such a one is a wide fathomless deep]: a phrase by which one is likened to a sea, in amplitude. (TA.)

كَأَنَّ عَيْنَهُ لُجَّةٌ (assumed tropical:) [As though his eye were a fathomless sea]: i. e., intensely black. (L.)

الظُّعْنُ تَسْبَحُ السَّرَابِ ↓ فِى لُجِّ (tropical:) The women in the camel-litters swim in the great expanse of mirage. (TA.)

لُجَّةُ الظَّلَامِ (tropical:) The depth of the darkness. (TA.)

اللَّيْلِ ↓ لُجُّ (assumed tropical:) The depth of night; its intense darkness and blackness. (TA.)

جَمَلُ أَدْهَمُ لُجٌّ (assumed tropical:) A deep black, or intensely black, camel. (K.)

لُجَّةٌ and ↓ لُجٌّ (tropical:) A numerous assembly, company, troop, or congregated body: (K:) from لُجَّةٌ with reference to the sea. (TA.)

لُجَّةٌ أَمْرٍ (assumed tropical:) The main part of an affair. (TA.)