سَوْقَمٌ
Root: سقم
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سَوْقَمٌ
A kind of tree resembling the
خِلَاف [q. v.], but not the same as this latter: or a kind of large tree, exactly like the
أَثْأَب, which is a tree of the figkind, (TA in art. ثأب,) except that it is taller than the latter, and less broad, having a fruit like the fig (التِين), which, when green, is [like] stone in hardness, but when it ripens it becomes somewhat yellow, and soft, and very sweet, and of a pleasant odour, and people send it, one to another, as a present. [Forskål, in his Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. cxxiv., mentions سقم, which is evidently a mistranscription for سوقم, and which he writes in Italic letters “ sokam, ” as one of the names of the ficus sycomorus; and app. of another species or variety of fig which he terms ficus sycomoroides.]
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