تَاجٌ

A crown; (S, A, K, TA;) i. e. a thing that is made for kings, of gold and jewels; (TA;) peculiar to the عَجَم [or Persians and other foreigners]: (Msb:) [a Persian word:] plural [of mult.] تِيجَانٌ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and [of pauc.] أَتْوَاجٌ. (TA.)

(assumed tropical:) A turban; as being likened to a crown. (TA.) It is said in a tradition, (TA,) العَمَايءِمُ تِيجَانُ العَرَبِ [Turbans are the crowns of the Arabs]; (S, TA;) i. e. turbans are to the Arabs as crowns to the kings; for the Arabs in the deserts are [or were] mostly bare-headed or wearing قَلَانِس [plural of قَلَنْسُوَةٌ, q. v.]; turbans among them being few. (TA.)

Also Silver. (TA.) [See what next follows.]