سلو

سَلْوَى ذ [accord. to those who make the alif to be a sign of the fem. gender] or سَلْوًى [accord. to those who make that letter to be one of quasicoordination] A certain bird, (S, M, Msb, K,) [in the present day applied to the quail, ] i. q. سُمَانَى [which is also applied in the present day to the quail], (Ksh and Bd and Jel in ii. 54,) [or] white [?], resembling the سُمَانَى, (M,) or like the pigeon, but longer in the shank and neck than the latter, and of a colour resembling that of the سُمَانَى, quick in motion: accord. to Akh, the word is used as sing. and pl.: (Msb:) [or] Akh says, I have not heard any sing. thereof, and it seems that the single one is thus called like the pl. number, in like manner as دفْلَى is [said to be] applied to one and to the pl. number: (S:) or the n. un. is سَلْوَاةٌ; (M, K;) of which Lth cites as an ex. this saying, [in which بَلَّلَهُ should be بَلَّلَهَا,] كَمَا ا@نْتَفَضَ السَّلْوَاةُ بَلَّلَهُ القَطْرُ [ Like as shakes the selwáh which the rain has much wetted ]. (TA.) -A2- Also Honey; (S, M, K;) and so ↓ سُلْوَانَةٌ, with damm: (K:) the former is used in this sense by a poet, (S, M,) namely, Khálid Ibn-Zuheyr; and Zj says that Khálid has made a mistake, the word سلوى signifying only a certain bird; but, accord. to AAF, (M,) ― -b2- السَّلْوَى signifies [also] Whatever renders thee forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation; (كُلُّ مَا سَلَّاكَ, M, K;) and honey is thus called because it renders thee thus by its sweetness. (M.)