سمق

سُمَّاقٌ ذ (S, O, K) and ↓ سَمُوقٌ, (O, K,) in the Tekmileh with teshdeed, [i. e. ↓ سَمُّوقٌ,] (TA,) [ Sumach; the rhus coriaria of Linn.; or its berry: ] a certain fruit, (K,) well known; (S, K;) a certain acid thing, with which one cooks; (O;) the fruit of certain trees of the [ high grounds termed ] قِفَاف and of the mountains, acid, consisting of bunches of small berries, which are cooked; (AHn, TA;) not known to AHn as growing in any part of the land of the Arabs except in Syria; and he says that it is intensely red: in the T, said to be the acid berry called عَبْرَب: n. un. with ة: (TA:) it excites appetence; stops chronic diarrhœa; and the application of water in which it has been steeped, or macerated, as a collyrium, is beneficial for the [ disorder termed ] سُلَاق and for ophthalmia. (K.)