Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سَيْكُرَانٌ

Root: سكر

Full Definition

سَيْكُرَانٌ A certain plant, always green, the grain whereof is eaten: Ed-Deenawaree [i. e. AHn] says, it is of the plants that continue green throughout the whole of the summer: I asked a sheykh of the Arabs of Syria, and he said, it is the سُخَر, [correctly سُخَّر,] and we eat it in its fresh state, with what an eating! and, he said, it has green grains, like the grain of the رَازِيَانَج [or fennel], except that they are round: [in the present day, it is applied to henbane, or a species thereof: accord. to Forskål, hyoscyamus datora. See also شَيْكُرَانٌ.]


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