بلز

طِينُ ا@لْاـِبْلِيزِ ذ The mud of Egypt; (K;) what the Nile leaves behind it after retiring from the surface of the ground: (TA:) a foreign word [arabicized, perhaps from the Greek πηλὸς , as suggested by De Sacy; who also remarks that it might be derived from the Greek ἰλὺς with the Egyptian masc. art. πι , were it not that ἰλὺς is fem.: (see his “Abd-allatif,” p. 8:) if we might suppose ابليز to be an old mistranscription for ايليز, we might with good reason derive it from ἰλὺς , which, as pronounced by the modern Greeks, very nearly resembles اـِيلِيز in sound]: (K:) [some of] the vulgar pronounce it with س. (TA.) ― -b2- [Also applied to Clay; plastic clay; or potters' earth. ]