سنط

سَنْطٌ ذ [The mimosa Nilotica; also called acacia Nilotica; ] a قَرَظ, [or this is properly the name of its fruit,] (M, K,) which grows in the صَعِيد [or Upper Egypt ], (M,) or [rather] in Egypt; [for it grows in Lower, as well as Upper, Egypt;] (K;) it is the best kind of firewood of the people of that country, who assert that it has most of fire, and least of ashes; so says AHn, on the authority of a person well informed; and he adds that they tan with it [or rather with its pods ]: the word is foreign: (M:) and is also written صَنْطٌ: Sgh says that is an arabicized word, from the Indian حبذ. [So in the TA, doubtless a mistranscription. In the CK, السّنَطُ is erroneously put for السَّنْطُ.]