س ج ل ط

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily deals with terms for specific plants, particularly jasmine, and types of fabrics or coverings, often with a Persian or Roman origin. It also extends to descriptive adjectives for these items, indicating color or quality.

Derived headwords

السِّجْلَاطnoun

1.
Jasmineclassical
A fragrant flowering plant, often associated with white or yellow flowers.
2.
Covering for a howdahclassical
A piece of wool or fabric used to cover a litter or palanquin carried by a camel.
3.
Woven linen clothclassical
A type of linen fabric that is embroidered or patterned, sometimes resembling a seal.

السِّنْجِلَاطnoun

1.
Type of fragrant plantclassical
A variety of aromatic herbs or plants, possibly a type of basil or similar fragrant herb.
2.
Aromatic herbclassical
A specific kind of fragrant plant, mentioned alongside other herbs.

سِجْلَاطِيّadjective

1.
Dark blueclassical
Describing a dark, bluish color, often associated with certain fabrics.
2.
Jasmine-coloredclassical
Having the color of jasmine flowers, typically a pale yellow or white.
3.
Pistachio-coloredclassical
Having the color of pistachios, a greenish hue.

Parallel reading

الياسمين، نقله الليث.

Jasmine, as transmitted by Al-Layth.

زعم بعض الرواة أن السجلاط الياسمين.

Some narrators claim that 'al-sijlat' is jasmine.

هو شيء من صوف تلقيه المرأة على هودجها، قاله الفراء.

It is something made of wool that a woman throws over her howdah, said Al-Farra'.

هو النمط يغطى به الهودج.

It is the carpet with which the howdah is covered.

هو فارسي معرب، وقال: سألت عجوزا رومية عن نمط فقلت: ما تسمون هذا فقالت: سجلاطس

It is a Persian word Arabized, and he said: I asked an old Roman woman about a carpet and said: What do you call this? And she said: Sijlatas.

أو ثياب كتان موشية، وكأن وشيه خاتم

Or embroidered linen clothes, and its embroidery is like a seal.

تخيرن إما أرجوانا مهدبا وإما سجلاط العراق المختما

Choose for yourselves either fringed purple or the sealed Sijlat of Iraq.

والسنجلاط، بزيادة النون: ع، نقله الجوهري، وقيل: ريحان.

And 'al-sinjilat', with the addition of the letter noon: 'ayn, transmitted by Al-Jawhari, and it is said: a fragrant plant.

ضرب من الرياحين

A type of fragrant herbs.

احب الكرائن والضومران وشرب العتيقة بالسنجلاط

I love the 'karā'in' and 'al-ḍawmarān', and drinking aged wine with 'al-sinjilāṭ'.

يقال للكساء الكحلي سجلاطي

The dark blue cloak is called 'sijlāṭī'.

خز سجلاطي، إذا كان كحليا.

Sijlati brocade, if it is dark blue.

خز سجلاطي: على لون الياسمين.

Sijlati brocade: the color of jasmine.

يقال: سجلاطي وسجلاط، كرومي وروم

It is said: 'sijlāṭī' and 'sijlāṭ', like 'rūmī' and 'rūm'.

والقول ما قاله أبو عمر و، وأصله رومي، يقال له: سقلاط، ويكون كحليا، ويكون فستقيا.

And the saying is what Abu Amr said, and its origin is Roman, it is called: 'siqlāṭ', and it can be dark blue, and it can be pistachio-colored.