سَلِيلٌ
Root: سل
Full Definition
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3 A colt; and with ة a filly; the ة being affixed, though سليل is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, because the word is made a subst.: or, as some say, the former signifies a colt that is born not in a [membrane such as is called] مَاسِكَة nor [in one such as is called] سَلًى: if in either of these, it is termed بَقِيرٌ [not بُقَيْرٌ as in the CK]. [See also دُعْمُوصٌ.]
4 And A young camel when just born, before it is known whether it is a male or a female.
def.2 Clear, or pure, beverage or wine; as though gently drawn away from dust or motes or particles of rubbish or the like: such is said to be the beverage, or wine, of Paradise: or cool beverage or wine: or such as is clear from dust or motes or particles of rubbish or the like, and from turbidness; of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: or such as is easy [in its descent] in the throat, or fauces. [See also سُلَالَةٌ, and سَلْسَالٌ.]
def.3 The channel of the water, or place in which the water flows, in a valley: or the middle of a valley, where flows the main body of water. And A wide and deep valley, that gives growth to the [trees called] سَلَم and سَمُر, or that gives growth to the سَلَم and ضَعَة and يَنَمَة and حَلَمَة; and سَالٌّ signifies the same: or this latter, a place in which are trees: or a narrow channel of a torrent in a valley: or a low place surrounded by what is elevated, in which the water collects: pl. of both سُلَّانٌ, or of the former accord. to Kr, and of the latter accord. to As [and the S], or that of the latter is سَوَالُّ. One says سَلِيلٌ مِنْ سَمُرٍ like as one says غَالٌّ مِنْ سَلَمٍ. The phrase سَالَ السَّلِيلُ بِهِمْ [lit. The wide, or wide and deep, valley, &c., flowed with them] is used by the poet Zuheyr as meaning
def.4 The brain of the horse.
2 The hump of the camel.
3 The نُخَاع [or spinal cord].
4 And سَلِيلُ اللَّحْمِ The [portions that are termed] خَصِيل [q. v. voce خَصِيلَةٌ] of flesh: [the former word in this case being app. a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is سَلِيلَةٌ ; the more probably as it is added that] the pl. is سَلَائِلُ.
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