سَلَخَ

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سَلَخَI , Present.T ـَ or ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْخٌ, He stripped off the hide, or skin, of a sheep or goat: or he skinned a sheep or goat. And سُلِخَ جِلْدُهَا [Its skin was stripped off]. One does not say of a camel, سَلَخْتُ جِلْدَهُ; but كَشَطْتُهُ, and نَجَوْتُهُ, and أَنْجَيْتُهُ.
2 [Hence,] He pulled off or stripped off [a garment]. You say of a woman, سَلَخَتْ دِرْعَهَا, and سَلَخَتْ عَنْهَا دِرْعَهَا, She pulled off her shift; stripped it off.
3 And [hence,] سَلَخَ الشَّهْرَ, or شَهْرَهُ, Present.T ـَ and ـُ Verbal.Noun سَلْخٌ and سُلُوخٌ, He passed the month, or his month; came to the end of it. سَلَخْنَا الشَّهْرَ means We passed forth from the month; having pulled off from ourselves every night one thirtieth part until the nights were complete, when we pulled off from ourselves all of it: and أَهْلَلْنَا هِلَالَ شَهْرِ كَذَا means “ We entered upon [the period of the new moon of] such a month; clothing ourselves with it and increasing the clothing of ourselves therewith until the passing of the half of it: ” then we pull off from ourselves [by degrees] the whole of it: hence a verse cited voce جُمَادَى. And one says of God, سَلَخَ النَّهَارَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ He drew forth gently the day from the night: or He separated the day from the night.
4 See also 7, in three places.
5 سَلَخَ الحَرُّ جِلْدَ الإِنْسَانِ and [in an intensive sense] سلّخهُ [The heat made the skin of the man to peel off; or excoriated the man]. And سَلَخَ الجَرَبُ جِلْدَهُ [The mange, or scab, excoriated him, i. e., a camel]: [and so سَلَخَهُ without the mention of the skin:] see سَالِخٌ. And سُلِخَ الظَّلِيمُ The ostrich had a disease in his feathers [app. such as caused many of them to fall off].
6 سَلَخَ النَّبَاتُ [The plant shed its foliage, and then became altogether green again: (see سَالِخٌ:) or] the plant became green again after having dried up.
7 فَسَلَخُوا مَوْضِعَ المَآءِ كَمَا يُسْلَخُ الإِهَابُ فَخَرَجَ المَآءُ, in a trad. respecting Solomon and the هُدْهُد [or hoopoe, i. e. And they stripped off the surface of the place of the water, like as the hide is stripped off, and thereupon the water came forth], means that they dug until they found the water.
8 سُلِخَ مِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ, said of a child, means He was drawn out from the belly of his mother.
9 سَلْخُ الشِعْرِ is The substituting throughout the poetry, for the original words, other words synonymous therewith: what falls short of this is termed مَسْخٌ.

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