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سلس

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سَلْسٌ 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.)

Derived headwords

سَلْسٌ
  1. 1.
قَدْ مَلَأَتْ مَرْكُوَّهَا رُؤُوسَا
كَأَنَّ فِيهِ عُجُزًا جُلُوسًا
شُمْطَ الرُّؤُوسِ أَلْقَتِ السُّلُوسَا