سَلَتَ

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سَلَتَI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْتٌ, He extracted, or made to come forth, [the contents of] the gut [by compressing it] with his hand. (M, K. [In both it is expl. by أَخْرَجَهُ بِيَدِهِ: but it seems that a fault has been accidentally committed by a copyist in the former or in its original, and thence passed into the latter; and that the words which I have supplied are necessary to explain the true meaning. That such is the case, appears from what here follows.]) It is said in the L that السَّلْتُ signifies The griping, with the hand, a thing that is contaminated by dirt, or filth, so that what is in it comes forth; and thus is done with a gut. It is also said to signify The extracting, or causing to come forth, what is fluid, or moist, adhering to another thing. [Hence,] سَلَتَ خَمْشَهُ i. e. مُخَاطَهُ عَنْ أَنْفِهِ [He cleansed his nose of the mucus that was in it by compressing it with his fingers]: occurring in two trads.; in one of which, the Prophet is related to have been in the habit of doing this to El-Hoseyn when he used to carry him upon his shoulder. [Hence, likewise,] it is said in a trad., فَيَنْفُذُ الجَحِيمُ إِلَى جَوْفِهِ فَيَسْلُتُ مَافِيهِ, i. e. [And the fire of Hell shall penetrate to his inside, and] shall exscind and extirpate what is in it.
2 You say also, سَلَتَ القَصْعَةَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْتٌ; and ; He cleansed the bowl by taking off with his finger what remained upon its sides; he wiped the bowl with his fingers or with his finger. And سَلَتَتْ خِضَابَهَا عَنْ يَدِهَا, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْتٌ, She cast from her, or from her hand, the remains of her stuff for dyeing the hands or hair: or she put away, or removed, that stuff from her hand: or she wiped off, and cast away, that stuff from her hand: or سَلَتَ الخِضَابَ, Present.T ـُ he took away, and wiped off, the material for dyeing the hands or hair; and in like manner. a similar thing; and sweat; and blood. سَلَتَ الدَّمَ عَنْهَا occurs in a trad. as meaning He removed the blood [from her or it].
3 سَلَتَ دَمَ البَدَنَةِ means, accord. to Lh, He scraped off the blood of the بدنة [or beast brought to Mekkeh for sacrifice, or there sacrificed,] with the knife: but [ISd says, (and in like manner هَلَتَ دَمَ البَدَنَةِ is expl. in the L as on the authority of Lh,)] in my opinion the meaning is, he scraped off the skin of the بدنة with the knife so that he made its blood to appear. (M. [The explanation in the K is made up from the two different explanations in the M, being as follows: قَشَرَهُ حَتَّى أَظْهَرَ دَمَهَا, as though meaning he scraped off the dried blood of the بدنة so that he made its fresh blood to appear: but in the copy of the K followed in the TA, النَّدَبَة is put in the place of البَدَنَة, and the former of these two (i. e. الندبة) I regard as the right word.])
4 سَلَتَ also signifies He cut off a thing. You say, سَلَتَ أَنْفَهُ, Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْتٌ, He cut off his nose entirely with a sword. And سَلَتَ يَدَهُ بِالسَّيْفِ He cut off his hand, or arm, with the sword. And سَلَتَ شَعَرَهُ He shaved off his hair. And سَلَتَ رَأْسَهُ He shaved his head.
5 سَلَتَهُ He beat, struck, or smote, him: and flogged him. You say, سَلَتُّهُ مِائَةَ سَوْطٍ I inflicted upon him a hundred strokes of the whip.
6 And سَلَتَ بِسَلْحِهِ He cast forth his excrement, or ordure.

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