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سَلَقٌ

Root: سلق

Full Definition

سَلَقٌ An even plain: or a smooth, even, tract, of good soil: (O, K: [a meaning erroneously assigned in the CK to سَلْقَةٌ:] or a depressed, even, plain, in which are no trees: or a low tract, or portion, of land, that produces herbage: pl. [of mult.] سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ and [of pauc.] أَسْلَاقٌ, and أَسَالِقُ is also a pl. of سَلَقٌ, or of its pl. أَسْلَاقٌ, as is likewise أَسَالِيقُ: سَمْلَقٌ , also, with an augmentative م, signifies the same, and its pl. is سَمَالِقُ: or the pl. سُلْقَانٌ signifies meadows (رِيَاض) in the higher parts of [tracts such as are termed] بِرَاق [pl. of بُرْقَةٌ] and قِفَاف [pl. of قُفٌّ]. (Az, TA in art. روض.)
2 See also سَلْقٌ.
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