حلب

مَحْلَبٌ محلب A place of milking. (Msb.) -A2- [Also The prunus mahaleb of Linn.; a small kernel of the stone of a wild cherry, much esteemed by the Egyptians, ( and by the Arabs in general, E. W. L.,) and employed by them in many diseases, as a bechic and carminative; brought from Europe: (Rouyer, in the “ Descr. de l'Egypte, ” xi. 452 of the 8vo. ed.:)] a kind of odoriferous tree: (A:) a certain tree having a grain (حَبّ [which may mean a kernel ]) that is put into perfumes and aromatics; (Msb, * TA;) the perfume in which it is incorporated being termed ↓ مَحْلَبِيَّةٌ: so say IDrst and others: AHn says that he had not heard of its growing anywhere in the country of the Arabs: accord. to Aboo-Bekr Ibn-Talhah, a tree having a grain (حَبّ) like that of the رَيْحَان [which is likewise used in medicine, called بِزْرُ الرَّيْحَانِ, i. e. the seed of the ocimum basilicum, or common sweet basil]: accord. to Aboo-'Obeyd El-Bekree, the [ tree called ] أَرَاك: (TA:) [J says,] حَبُّ المَحْلَبِ is an aromatic medicine, the place whereof is المَحْلَبِيَّةُ, (S,) which is a town (بَلَدٌ) near El-Mósil: (K, TA:) IKh calls it a kind of perfume: some say it is the grain of the خِرْوَع [or castor-oil-plant ]: others, that the محلب is the fruit, or produce, of the kind of tree termed شَجَرُ اليُسْرِ, which the Arabs call الأُسْر: IDrd says that it is the grain with which one perfumes; calling the grain by the name of محلب: (TA:) the best is the white, pearly, and clear. (Ibn-Seenà, book ii. p. 210.) Accord. to IDrst, this word is originally an inf. n., and حبّ المحلب and شجرة المحلب mean حبّ الحلب and شجرة الحلب. (TA. [IbrD informs me that it is a custom of some of the Arabs, previously to their milking, to chew some محلب, and to anoint with it the teat of the animal.]) -A3- Honey. (K.)