Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

السُّلَاقُ

Root: سلق

Full Definition

السُّلَاقُ A certain festival of the Christians; that of the Ascension of Jesus into Heaven: derived from سَلَقَ الحَائِطَ [expl. above ]: said by IDrd to be a foreign word (أَعْجَمَىٌّ), and in one place said by him to be Syriac, arabicized.


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