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سلخ

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

The root 'س ل خ' primarily denotes the act of stripping, peeling, or shedding something, particularly skin or outer layers. It extends to concepts of passing or completing a period of time, and metaphorically, to removing oneself from something.

Derived headwords

سَلَخَverb
  1. 1.
    he skinned the sheepboth

    he skinned the sheep

سَلْخnoun
  1. 1.
    he skinned the sheepboth

    he skinned the sheep

مَسْلُوخnoun
  1. 1.
    the sheep from which the skin was removedboth

    the sheep from which the skin was removed

مِسْلاخnoun
  1. 1.
    hide, skinboth

    The skin or hide of an animal.

  2. 2.
    shed skinboth

    The outer layer that an animal, like a snake, sheds.

  3. 3.
    date palmclassical

    A date palm tree whose fruit falls off while still green.

اِنْسَلَخَverb
  1. 1.
    to shed, peel offboth

    To come off or be shed, like skin from a snake or a garment from a person.

  2. 2.
    to pass, elapseboth

    To pass or elapse, referring to time like a month or day.

سالِخadjective
  1. 1.
    shedding (snake)classical

    A black snake that sheds its skin annually.

سَلِيخَةnoun
  1. 1.
    dry shrubclassical

    The dry, woody part of certain shrubs like Ramth and 'Arfaj, which is not good for grazing.

Parallel reading

سلخت جلد الشاة أسلخها وأسلخها سلخا.
I skinned the sheep, I skin it and I skin it a skinning.
والمسلوخ: الشاة سلخ عنها جلدها.
And the muslūkh: the sheep from which its skin was flayed.
وسلخت المرأة درعها: نزعته.
And the woman stripped off her tunic: she pulled it off.
والمسلاخ: الإهاب.
And the mislākh: the hide.
ومسلاخ الحية: قشرها الذي تنسلخ منه.
And the mislākh of the snake: its skin from which it sheds.
والمسلاخ: النخلة التي ينتثر بسرها أخضر.
And the mislākh: the palm tree whose dates fall off while green.
وسلخت الشهر، إذا أمضيته وصرت في آخره.
And I completed the month, if you have spent it and reached its end.
حتى إذا سلخا جمادى ستة
Until they completed six of Jumada
وانسلخ الشهر من سنته، والرجل من ثيابه، والحية من قشرها، والنهار من الليل.
And the month elapsed from its year, and the man from his clothes, and the snake from its skin, and the day from the night.
يقال أسود سالخ، غير مضاف، لأنه يسلخ جلده كل عام.
It is said a black snake, unqualified, because it sheds its skin every year.
والأنثى أسودة، ولا توصف بسالخة.
And the female is 'aswada', and is not described as sālikhah.
والسليخة: سليخة الرمث والعرفج الذي ليس فيه مرعى، إنما هو خشب يابس.
And the salīkhah: the dry wood of the Ramth and 'Arfaj which has no pasture, it is merely dry wood.