سلس
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaسَلْسٌ ذ A string upon which beads, (M,) or white beads worn by female slaves, (S, K,) are strung: (S, M, K:) pl. سُلُوسٌ: (S, M:) or [ a woman's ear-drop; i. e.] the woman's ornament called قُرط. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b2- And [the pl.] سُلُوسٌ signifies also Women's mufflers, or headcoverings; syn. خُمرٌ [pl. of خِمَارٌ]: so says IAar; and he cites as an ex., قَدْ مَلَأَتْ مَرْكُوَّهَا رُؤُوسَا كَأَنَّ فِيهِ عُجُزًا جُلُوسًا شُمْطَ الرُّؤُوسِ أَلْقَتِ السُّلُوسَا [ They (referring to camels) had filled their watering-trough with heads, as though there were in it old women sitting, with grizzled heads, having thrown off the mufflers ]: they having eaten of [the kind of plants, or trees, called] حَمْض, so that their faces and heads had become white, he likens them to old women that had thrown off the mufflers. (M.)
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