سِلْقٌ

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سِلْقٌ [Bete; and particularly red garden-bete: so called in the present day; and also called شَوَنْدَر and سَوَنْدَر and بَنْجَر:] a certain plant, or herb (بَقْلَةٌ), that is eaten, well known; i. q. جغندر [or چُغُنْدُرْ, whence the vulgar name شَوَنْدَر, and hence سَوَنْدَر]; so says ISh; i. e. in Pers.; in some of the MSS. جلندر [a mistranscription for چُگُنْدُرْ]; a plant having long leaves, and a root penetrating [deeply] into the earth, the leaves of which are tender, and are cooked: it clears [the skin], acts as a dissolvent, and as a lenitive, and as an aperient, or a deobstruent; exhilarates, and is good for the نِقْرِس [i. e. gout, or podagra,] and the joints: its expressed juice, when poured upon wine, converts it into vinegar after two hours; and when poured upon vinegar, converts it into wine after four hours; and the expressed juice of its root, used as an errhine, is an antidote to toothache and earache and hemicrania. [See also حُمَّاضٌ, and كُرْنُبٌ.] سِلْقُ المَآءِ and سِلْقُ البَرِّ, also, are the names of Two plants.

def.2 Also The he-wolf: and سِلْقَةٌ the she-wolf: or the latter signifies thus; but سِلْقٌ is not applied to the he-wolf: the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ: or these are pls. of سِلْقٌ; and the pl. of سِلْقَةٌ is سِلَقٌ and سِلْقٌ, or [rather] this last is a coll. gen. n. of which سِلْقَةٌ is the n. un. Hence the prov., أَسْلَطُ مِنْ i. e. More clamorous than a she-wolf: or it may mean more overpowering.
2 And hence, سِلْقَةٌ is applied to a woman as meaning Clamorous; or long-tongued and vehemently clamorous, foul, evil, or lewd; likened to the she-wolf in respect of her bad qualities: pl. سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ.
3 سِلْقَةٌ also signifies A female lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, or a female locust, when she has laid her eggs.

def.3 Also A water-course, or channel in which water flows, between two tracts of elevated, or elevated and rugged, ground: or, accord. to As, an even, depressed tract of ground: pl. سُلْقَانٌ and أَسْلَاقٌ and أَسَالِقُ, which are also said to be pls. of سَلَقٌ [q. v.].

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