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سلق

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

سِلْقٌ ذ [ Bete; and particularly red garden-bete: so called in the present day; and also called شَوَنْدَر and سَوَنْدَر and بَنْجَر:] a certain plant, (S, Msb,) or herb (بَقْلَةٌ), (K,) that is eaten, (S,) well known; (Msb, K;) i. q. جغندر [or Jُغُنْدُرْ, whence the vulgar name شَوَنْدَر, and hence سَوَنْدَر]; so says ISh; i. e. in Pers.; in some of the MSS. جلندر [a mistranscription for JُGُنْدُرْ]; a plant having long leaves, and a root penetrating [ deeply ] into the earth, the leaves of which are tender, and are cooked: (TA:) it clears [ the skin ], acts as a dissolvent, and as a lenitive, and as an aperient, or a deobstruent; exhilarates, and is good for the نِقْرِس [i. e. gout, or podagra, ] and the joints: its expressed juice, when poured upon wine, converts it into vinegar after two hours; and when poured upon vinegar, converts it into wine after four hours; and the expressed juice of its root, used as an errhine, is an antidote to toothache and earache and hemicrania. (K.) [See also حُمَّاضٌ, and كُرْنُبٌ.] سِلْقُ المَاآءِ and سِلْقُ البَرِّ, also, are the names of Two plants. (K.) -A2- Also The he-wolf: (S, Msb, K:) and ↓ سِلْقَةٌ the she-wolf: (S, K:) or the latter signifies thus; but سِلْقٌ is not applied to the he-wolf: (K:) the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ: (JM, TA;) or these are pls. of سِلْقٌ; and the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سِلَقٌ and سِلْقٌ, (K,) or [rather] this last is a coll. gen. n. of which سِلْقَةٌ is the n. un. (Sb.) Hence the prov., ↓ أَسْلَطُ مِنْ سِلْقَةٍ (JK, Meyd) i. e. More clamorous than a she-wolf: or it may mean more overpowering. (Meyd.) ― -b2- And hence, (TA,) ↓ سِلْقَةٌ is applied to a woman as meaning (tropical:) Clamorous; or long-tongued and vehemently clamorous, (S, K, TA,) foul, evil, or lewd; (K, TA;) likened to the she-wolf in respect of her bad qualities: (TA:) pl. سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ. (K.) ― -b3- ↓ سِلْقَةٌ also signifies A female lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, (JK,) or a female locust, (TA,) when she has laid her eggs. (JK, TA.) -A3- Also A water-course, or channel in which water flows, (K, TA,) between two tracts of elevated, or elevated and rugged, ground: or, accord. to As, an even, depressed tract of ground: (TA:) pl. سُلْقَانٌ (K) and أَسْلَاقٌ and أَسَالِقُ, which (i. e. the second and third of these pls.) are also said to be pls. of سَلَقٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)

Derived headwords

سِلْقٌ
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سِلْقُ المَاآءِ
سِلْقُ البَرِّ