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سَبِيخٌ

Root: سبخ

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سَبِيخٌ Cotton, and wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), separated, or plucked asunder, and loosened; as also مُسَبَّخٌ : [and سَبِيخَةٌ , in which the ة is added to convert the epithet into a subst., signifies a portion, i. e. a loose flock, thereof; and its pl. is سَبَائِخُ, whence] one says, طَارَتْ سَبَائِخُ القُطْنِ [The loose flocks of the cotton flew about].
2 [Hence,] Feathers (رِيش) that fall off and become scattered: as also مُسَبَّخٌ : the pl. of the former [used as a subst.], in this and in the following senses, [or rather of سَبِيخَةٌ as a n. un. thus used,] is سَبَائِخُ. One says, وَرَدْتُ مَآءً حَوْلَهُ سَبِيخُ الطَّيْرِ, and , i. e. [I came to water around which were] the feathers that had fallen off [and become scattered] of birds.
3 Also Cotton made wide for a medicament to be put upon it and for it to be applied upon a wound: and signifies a portion of cotton thus prepared for this purpose.
4 And Cotton, and wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), wound, after the separating and loosening, (S, K, in the former بَعْدَ النَّدْفِ i. e. يُلَفُّ,) to be spun by a woman: and سَبِيخَةٌ signifies a portion thereof.
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