صعلك

صُعْلُوكٌ ذ Poor, or needy; (S, O, K, TA;) [ a poor man; ] and ISd adds, having no property; and Az adds, and having no reliance [ upon any person or thing ]: (TA:) and a thief, or robber: (KL:) pl. صَعَالِيكُ. (S, O.) صَعَالِيكُ العَرَبِ means ذُؤْبَانُهَا [i. e., as expl. voce ذِئْبٌ, The thieves, or sharpers, and paupers, of the Arabs; or the paupers of the Arabs who practise thieving: because they act like wolves]. (S, O.) 'Orweh Ibn-El-Ward was called عُرْوَةُ الصَّعَالِيكِ because he used to collect the poor in a حَظِيرَة [i. e. an enclosure for cattle] and sustain them by means of the plunder that he took. (S, O, K.)