سَرَطَانٌ
Root: سرط
Full Definition
سَرَطَانٌ
: see سُرَطٌ, in two places: and سُرَّيْطَى: and سِرْطِمٌ.
def.2 Also [The crab;] a certain aquatic creature; a certain animal of the sea; a certain creeping thing (دَابَّة), of aquatic creatures; a certain fluvial creeping thing (دابّة); and also a marine kind, which is an animal that becomes hard like stone: the former kind is of much utility; the quantity of three مَثَاقِيل of its ashes, when burnt in a cooking-pot of copper (نُحَاسٍ أَحْمَرَ [for the latter of which words we find in the CK خُمِّرَ]), with water or wine, or with half its weight of gentian (جِنْطِيَانَا), is very good against the bite of the mad dog; if its eye be hung upon a person affected with a tertian fever, he is cured; and if its leg be hung upon a tree, its fruit falls spontaneously: this is [said of] the سرطان that is bred in rivers: of the marine kind, what is burnt is an ingredient in collyriums, for removing whiteness, and in dentifrices (سَنُونَات, so in copies of the K and in the TA [but in the CK, erroneously, سُفُوفَات]), and strengthens the gum: pl. سَرَطَانَاتٌ.
2 السَّرَطَانُ is also the name of
3 [The disease called cancer;] a black-biliary tumour, which begins like an almond, and smaller, and when it becomes large, there appear upon it veins, red and green, resembling the legs of the سَرَطَان: there is no hope for its cure; and it is treated medicinally only in order that it may not increase: a certain disease that attacks men and beasts: it is also a certain disease in the pastern of a beast, rendering it hard, or rigid, so that the animal inverts his hoof: a certain disease that appears in the legs of beasts: some say that it is a disease which affects a man in his fauces, having relation to the blood, and resembling the دُبَيْلَة [which is explained by ISh, in describing the disease termed ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ, as an ulcer that perforates the belly]: and some say, that it is [the disease called] دَآءُ الفِيلِ.
def.2 Also [The crab;] a certain aquatic creature; a certain animal of the sea; a certain creeping thing (دَابَّة), of aquatic creatures; a certain fluvial creeping thing (دابّة); and also a marine kind, which is an animal that becomes hard like stone: the former kind is of much utility; the quantity of three مَثَاقِيل of its ashes, when burnt in a cooking-pot of copper (نُحَاسٍ أَحْمَرَ [for the latter of which words we find in the CK خُمِّرَ]), with water or wine, or with half its weight of gentian (جِنْطِيَانَا), is very good against the bite of the mad dog; if its eye be hung upon a person affected with a tertian fever, he is cured; and if its leg be hung upon a tree, its fruit falls spontaneously: this is [said of] the سرطان that is bred in rivers: of the marine kind, what is burnt is an ingredient in collyriums, for removing whiteness, and in dentifrices (سَنُونَات, so in copies of the K and in the TA [but in the CK, erroneously, سُفُوفَات]), and strengthens the gum: pl. سَرَطَانَاتٌ.
2 السَّرَطَانُ is also the name of
3 [The disease called cancer;] a black-biliary tumour, which begins like an almond, and smaller, and when it becomes large, there appear upon it veins, red and green, resembling the legs of the سَرَطَان: there is no hope for its cure; and it is treated medicinally only in order that it may not increase: a certain disease that attacks men and beasts: it is also a certain disease in the pastern of a beast, rendering it hard, or rigid, so that the animal inverts his hoof: a certain disease that appears in the legs of beasts: some say that it is a disease which affects a man in his fauces, having relation to the blood, and resembling the دُبَيْلَة [which is explained by ISh, in describing the disease termed ذَاتُ الجَنْبِ, as an ulcer that perforates the belly]: and some say, that it is [the disease called] دَآءُ الفِيلِ.
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