Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

Includes Hans Wehr and al-Mufradat — All in One Search

سُلَاقٌ

Root: سلق

Full Definition

سُلَاقٌ Pimples, or small pustules, that comes forth upon the root of the tongue: or a scaling in the roots of the teeth: sometimes it is in beasts (دَوَابّ).
2 And A thickness, or roughness, in the eyelids, by reason of a corrosive matter which causes them to become red and occasions the falling off of the eyelashes and then the ulceration of the edges of the eyelids: thus سلاق of the eye is expl. in the “ Kánoon. ”
Lane's Lexicon + Hans Wehr + Mufradat

Three dictionaries. One search.

"The product of over thirty years of unrelenting labor — to this day supreme in the field of Arabic lexicography."

47,000+ classical entries Root-based navigation Full text search Hyperlinked definitions
Try Now

Trusted by researchers at University of Michigan, Duke, Alberta & more