صُعْلُوكٌ

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صُعْلُوكٌ Poor, or needy; [a poor man;] and ISd adds, having no property; and Az adds, and having no reliance [upon any person or thing]: and a thief, or robber: pl. صَعَالِيكُ. صَعَالِيكُ العَرَبِ means ذُؤْبَانُهَا [i. e., as expl. voce ذِئْبٌ, The thieves, or sharpers, and paupers, of the Arabs; or the paupers of the Arabs who practise thieving: because they act like wolves]. 'Orweh Ibn-El-Ward was called عُرْوَةُ الصَّعَالِيكِ because he used to collect the poor in a حَظِيرَة [i. e. an enclosure for cattle] and sustain them by means of the plunder that he took.

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