سِلٌّ
Root: سل
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سِلٌّ
and
سُلَالٌ , the former [the more common, and] often occurring in the verses of chaste poets, though El-Hareeree says in the “ Durrat el-Ghowwás ” that it is an erroneous term of the vulgar, and that the latter is the right term, signify the same, as also
سُلٌّ and
سَلَّةٌ , [Consumption: or phthisis:] an emaciating, oppressive, and fatal malady: a certain disease, well known; said in the medical books to be one of the diseases of girls, because of the abundance of blood in them: accord. to the physicians, an ulcer, or ulcers, [or ulceration,] in the lungs; succeeding (تُعَقِّبُ [grammatically referring to سَلَّة]) either
ذَات الرِّئَة [i. e. inflammation of the lungs] or
ذَات الجَنْب [i. e. pleurisy]: (in the CK, بِعَقَبِ
ذات الرِّيّةِ اوذاتِ الجَنْبِ is [erroneously] put in the place of تُعَقِّبُ ذَاتَ الرِّئَةِ أَوْ ذَاتَ الجَنْبِ: and in what here follows, the gen. case is put in the place of the nom. in four instances:) or a rheum (زُكَامٌ), and defluxions (نَوَازِلُ), or a long cough, and attended with constant fever.
2 Hence the saying, in a trad., غُبَارُذَيْلِ المَرْأَةِ الفَاجِرَةِ يُورثُ السِّلَّ
2 Hence the saying, in a trad., غُبَارُذَيْلِ المَرْأَةِ الفَاجِرَةِ يُورثُ السِّلَّ
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