غلصم

الغَلْصَمَةُ ذ [ The epiglottis: and also, app. by extension of the primary signification, the larynx, or upper part of the windpipe: ] the thing that rises up in the uppermost part of the throat, and is said to throw the meat and drink into the œsophagus, or gullet: (Zj, in his “ Khalk-el-Insán: ”) the piece of flesh [or cartilage ] that is between the head and the neck: or the عُجْرَة [or projecting thing ] that is upon the place where the uvula and gullet meet: (K:) or [by an extended application] the head of the حُلْقُوم [or windpipe ], (S, Msb, K,) with its [ ducts called ] شَوَارِب [q. v. voce شَارِبٌ] and its حَرْقَدَة [app. meaning pomum Adami ]; (K;) i. e. the projecting place [or part ] in the حَلْق [here app. meaning, as it does in many cases, throat ]: (S, Msb:) or the root, or base, of the tongue: (K:) or the place where the حُلْقُوم [or windpipe, i. e. the head thereof, ] becomes in conjunction with the حَلْق [or fauces ] when the eater swallows a mouthful and it descends from [ over ] the حُلْقُوم: (TA:) pl. غَلَاصِمُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) The chiefs, lords, nobles, or men of distinction: and the congregated or collective body [of a people], or the mass [thereof]; syn. الجَمَاعَةُ: (K:) pl. as above. (TA.) And [hence] one says, هُوَ فِى غَلْصَمَةٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ i. e. فِى شَرَفٍ وَعَدَدٍ [meaning (assumed tropical:) He is among ( such as are distinguished by ) nobility and number, of his people ], (ISk, K, TA,) [or] meaning, accord. to As, he is among the chief portion of his people, and the nobility thereof: (TA:) [and in the same sense ↓ غَلْصَم is used, without ة, but perhaps only by poetic license:] Abu-n-Nejm says, أَبِى لُجَيْمٌ وَا@سْمُهُ مِلْءُ الفَمِ فِى غَلْصَمِ الهَامِ وَهَامِ غَلْصَمِ [(assumed tropical:) My father is, or was, Lujeym, and his fame (a tropical rendering) is what fills the mouth; one among the chief portion and the nobility of the headmen, and among headmen of a chief portion and of nobility ]. (TA.)