بَصَلٌ
Root: بصل
Full Definition
2 [Also Any kind of bulb, or bulbous plant.] بَصَلُ الزَّعْفَرَانِ [The bulb of the saffron], which is buried in the ground, is like the بَصَل [or onion] commonly known. بَصَل الفَأْرِ is the same as الإِسْقِيلُ and الإِسْقَالُ and العُنْصَلُ, (K in art. سقل,) also written العُنْصُلُ, (K in art. عصل,) or بَصَلُ العنصل, (KL voce زيزٌ, [and so as written by Golius,]) [Scilla, or squill; particularly scilla maritima, or officinal squill; called by all these names, except, perhaps, السقال, in the present day;] also called زِيزٌ, and البَصَلُ البَرِّىُّ [the wild onion; but from what follows, it seems that there is a confusion here]. بَصَلُ الذِّئْبِ, and بصل الزير, or بصل الرند, (so in the TA in art. بلبس,) i. q. بلبوس Bulbus esculentus, or البَلْبُوس, with fet-h, [thus generally written, though it would seem to be correctly بُلْبُوس,] the leaves of which resemble those of the سَذَاب [or rue]: (TA in art. بلبس:) the بَلْبُوس is the wild onion (in Pers. پِيَازْ صَحْرَائِى). (KL voce بلبوس. [This last assertion suggests that الزير and الرند may be mistranscriptions for الزِّيز; the زيز mentioned before.]) [بَصَلُ القىْءَ Bulbus vomitorius; mentioned by Golius; and by Dioscorides, as being emetic and diuretic.]
3 Also, or بَصَلَةٌ,
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