سُلْوَانٌ

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سُلْوَانٌ A water which is drunk and which renders one forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation; or comforts, or consoles, for a loss or want: or a thing that is given to drink to the passionate lover in order that he may be forgetful, or content, or happy, without the woman: or it consists in one's taking some of the dust, or earth, of a grave, and sprinkling it upon water, and giving it to drink to the passionate lover, whereupon his love dies: or rain-water poured upon a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ) called سُلْوَانَةٌ , of which they used to say that when the passionate lover drank this water he became forgetful, or content, or happy, in his privation: or a certain medicine which is given to drink to him who is in grief and in consequence of which he becomes happy; called by the physicians مُفَرِّحٌ: or a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ) for captivating, or fascinating, also called سُلْوَانَةٌ , and سَلْوَانَةٌ , with which women captivate, or fascinate, men, restraining them from other women: or سُلْوَانَةٌ signifies [or, accord. to the K, signifies also] a certain bead (خَرَزَةٌ, M, K,) transparent, which, when one has buried it in the sand and then scraped the sand up from over it, is seen to be black, and is given [in water] to drink to a man, and renders him forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation: or a pebble upon which water is poured and given to drink to a man, who thereupon becomes forgetful, or content, or happy, in a case of privation: Ru-beh says, لَوْ أَشْرَبُ السُّلْوَانَ مَا سَلِيتُ مَابِى غِنًى عَنْكِ وَإِنْ غَنِيتُ and Nuseyr Ibn-Abee-Nuseyr, in answer to a question of As respecting the meaning of السلوان, said that it is a bead (خَرَزَةٌ) which is bruised, or pulverized, [and upon which water is then poured,] the water of which occasions in the drinker thereof forgetfulness, or content, or happiness, in a case of privation: but As disallowed this, and said that it is an Verbal.Noun of سَلَوْتُ, and that the meaning is لَوْ أَشْرَبُ السُّلُوَّ [i. e. Were I made to drink forgetfulness, &c., I should not become forgetful, &c.: there is not in me freedom from want of thee, though I be free from want of others]. See also سَلْوَةٌ.

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