سلب

سَلَبٌ ذ : see سَلِيبٌ. ― -b2- Spoil, plunder, or booty; (TA;) what is seized, or carried off, by force, (M, Msb, K, TA,) from a man, of spoils, whatever it be; (TA;) comprising all the clothing that is upon the man; (Mgh, Msb, TA;) accord. to Lth and Az (Mgh) and the Bári'; (Msb;) or whatever one of two antagonists in war takes from the other, of the things upon him and with him, i. e. of clothes and weapons, and his beast: of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, i. e., (TA,) i. q. مَسْلُوبٌ [used in the manner of a subst., or as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant]: (Mgh, TA:) pl. أَسْلَابٌ. (M, A, Msb, K.) You say, أَخَذَ سَلَبَ القَتِيلِ [ He took the spoil of the slain man ], and أَسْلَابَ القَتْلَى [ the spoils of the slain men]. (A.) ― -b3- Also (assumed tropical:) The hide and shanks and paunch of a slaughtered animal. (K. [App. so called because given to the slaughterer, as though they were his spoil; or, in the case of an animal of the chase, to the dog or dogs: see the verses cited voce بَدَنٌ.]) ― -b4- And (assumed tropical:) The peel, or rind, [or skin, ] of a cane, or reed, (K, TA,) and of a tree. (TA.) And [particularly] The bark, or rind, of a kind of tree (S, K) well known (S) in El-Yemen, of which ropes are made, (S, K,) and which is coarser and harder than the fibres of the Theban palm-tree: (S:) hence it is that a well-known kind of [thick] rope [made of the fibres of the common palm-tree] is called by the vulgar ↓ سَلَبَةٌ: (TA:) or the bark of a kind of tree of which are made [ baskets of the kind called ] سِلَال: (Sh, TA:) there is a market called ↓ سُوقُ السَّلَّابِينَ in El-Medeeneh, (Sh, S, K, TA,) and in Mekkeh also, as being the market [of the sellers, or manufacturers, of what are made] of سَلَب: (Sh, TA:) it is also [said to be] (K) a certain kind of tall tree, (M, K,) growing symmetrically, which is taken and laid beneath hot ashes (يُمَلُّ) and then split asunder, whereupon there comes forth form it a white مُشَاقَة [or coarse fibrous substance ] like [ the fibres of the palm-tree, called ] لِيف; and it is one of the best of the materials of which ropes are made: the n. un. is with ة: (M:) and (M, K) AHn says, (M,) it is a certain plant (M, K) which grows in form like candles, except that it is larger and longer, and of which are made ropes of every sort: (M:) and (M, K) some say, (M,) it is the fibrous substance (ليف) of the Theban palm-tree, (M, K,) this Lth asserts it to be, (TA,) which is brought from Mekkeh, (M,) and Lth adds, and it is white; but Az says that Lth has erred respecting it: A'Obeyd says, I asked respecting it, and was told, it is not the fibrous substance of the Theban palm-tree, but is a kind of tree well known in El-Yemen, of which ropes are made: and some say that it is the خُوص [or leaves ] of the ثَمَام [or panic grass ]: and this [says SM] is what is commonly known among us in El-Yemen: (TA:) [accord. to Forskål, (Flor. Aegypt. Arab., p. cx.) this name is applied in El-Yemen to a species of hyacinth, which he terms hyacinthus aporus. ] A poet says, (S,) namely, [Murrah] Ibn-Mahkán [El-Temeemee], (M,) فَنَشْنَشَ الجِلْدَ عَنْهَاوَهْىَ بَارِكَةٌ كَمَا تُنَشْنِشُ كَفَّا فَاتِلٍ سَلَبَا (S, M, *) i. e. And he stripped off quickly the skin [ from her, while she was lying upon her breast, like as the two hands of the twister of ropes strips off quickly the seleb ]: (S in art. نش:) some read قَاتِلٍ, meaning [by the word following it] “ what is seized, or carried off by force, from one slain: ” (M:) As read فَاتِلٍ, with ف; IAar, with ق: Th says that the right reading is that of As. (S in the present art.)