حُلْقُومٌ
Root: حلقم
Full Definition
حُلْقُومٌ
The windpipe, or passage of the breath; by the cutting, or severing, of which, and of the مَرِىْء [or œsophagus] and وَدَجَانِ [or two external jugular veins], the lawful slaughtering of an animal is completed: accord. to the S and K, [and to the Msb, in art. حلق, though it is there correctly and fully explained as meaning the windpipe,] i. q.
حَلْقٌ: but in the M it is explained [agreeably with general usage] as the passage of the breath, and of coughing, from the
جَوْف [or chest]; consisting of a series of successively-superimposed cartilages (أَطْبَاقُ غَرَاضِيفَ), before which, in the exterior of the throat, is nothing but skin; having its lower extremity in the lungs, and its upper extremity at the root of the tongue: from it pass forth the breath and the wind and the saliva and the voice: [see also another explanation voce حَلْقٌ, from Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán, ” and the Msb:] pl. حَلَاقِمُ and حَلَاقِيمُ. Accord. to some, the م is augmentative: accord. to others, radical.
2 [Hence,] they say, نَزَلْنَا مِثْلَ حُلْقُومِ النَّعَامَةِ, meaning
2 [Hence,] they say, نَزَلْنَا مِثْلَ حُلْقُومِ النَّعَامَةِ, meaning
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