سَالِخٌ
Root: سلخ
Full Definition
سَالِخٌ
Skinning, or flaying.
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3 [A serpent casting off its slough. And hence,] A black serpent, intensely black: you say, أَسْوَدُ سَالِخٌ, not prefixing the former word so as to govern the latter in the gen. case: [so called] because it casts off its slough (يَسْلَخٌ جِلْدَهُ) every year: the female is called أَسْوَدَةٌ, and is not qualified by the epithet سَالِخَةٌ: and you say أَسْوَدَانِ سَالِخٌ, not giving to the epithet the dual form, accord. to AZ and As; but IDrd authorizes its being in the dual form, though the former mode is the better known: and أَسَاوِدُ سَالِخَةٌ and سَوَالِخُ and سُلَّخُ and سُلَّخَةٌ , which last is extr. [i. e. anomalous].
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3 [A serpent casting off its slough. And hence,] A black serpent, intensely black: you say, أَسْوَدُ سَالِخٌ, not prefixing the former word so as to govern the latter in the gen. case: [so called] because it casts off its slough (يَسْلَخٌ جِلْدَهُ) every year: the female is called أَسْوَدَةٌ, and is not qualified by the epithet سَالِخَةٌ: and you say أَسْوَدَانِ سَالِخٌ, not giving to the epithet the dual form, accord. to AZ and As; but IDrd authorizes its being in the dual form, though the former mode is the better known: and أَسَاوِدُ سَالِخَةٌ and سَوَالِخُ and سُلَّخُ and سُلَّخَةٌ , which last is extr. [i. e. anomalous].
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