سلى

سَلًى ذ or سَلًا [thus differently written, the former the more correct, unless the word be derived from السَّلْوَةُ, as it is said to be in the Ham p. 656, but this is improbable,] The secundine; i. e. the skin, [or membrane, ] (M, K,) or thin skin, (S,) in which is the fœtus, or young, [ in the womb, ] (S, M, Msb, K,) of human beings, and of horses and camels, (M,) or of human beings and of cattle, (K,) or [peculiarly] of cattle, (T, S,) that of human beings being termed مَشِيمَةٌ: (TA:) it is pulled off from the face of the young camel at the time of the birth, or else it kills it, like as it does when it becomes disrupted in the belly: when it comes forth, the she-camel is safe, and so is the young one; but if it becomes disrupted in the belly, she perishes, and so does the young one: (S:) pl. أَسْلَاآءٌ. (M, Msb, K.) [Hence,] one says, اِنْقَطَعَ السَّلَى فِى البَطْنِ (assumed tropical:) [ The secundine became disrupted in the belly ]; (S, Meyd, K;) i. e. artifice departed [or came to an end]; (S;) a prov. applied in the case of an affair's becoming beyond one's power of accomplishment, and coming to an end; (Meyd;) like the saying, بَلَغَ السِّكِّينُ العَظْمَ [The knife reached to the bone]. (S, K.) And هُوَ اآكِلُ الأَسْلَاآءِ (assumed tropical:) [ He is the eater of secundines ]; meaning he is low, base, vile, or sordid. (TA.) And وَقَعَ القَوْمُ فِى سَلَى جَمَلٍ (assumed tropical:) [ The people, or party, fell into the like of the secundine of a hecamel ]; meaning they fell into a difficult affair or case; (S, K *) or they fell into an unparalleled evil; (Meyd;) for the he-camel has no سلى. (S, Meyd.)