صَلًا
Root: صلو
Full Definition
صَلًا
The middle of the back of a human being and of any quadruped: and, or as some say, [app. in a beast,] the part that slopes down from the hips, or haunches: or the space intervening between the
جَاعِرَة [app. meaning the hinder projection of the haunch or rump of a beast] and the tail: or the part on the right and left of the tail; the two together being called [the] صَلَوَانِ, which is similarly expl. by Zj in relation to a she-camel; app. properly meaning the two parts bordering upon the tail-bone: or the place in which is set the tail of the horse; dual as above: or the bone upon which are the two buttocks: or the bone in which is the place of setting of the tail-bone; thus expl. by IDrd: or the صَلَوَانِ are the two bones projecting from the two sides of the rump: or, accord. to some of the lexicologists, two veins (عِرْقَانِ) in the place of the
رِدْف [i. e. in the rump]: the pl. is صَلَوَاتٌ, an instance of a pl. formed by the addition of ا and ت from a masc. sing., and أَصْلَآءٌ.
2 [Hence,] one says, جِئْتُ فِى أَصْلَائِهِمْ, meaning I came at their rears.
2 [Hence,] one says, جِئْتُ فِى أَصْلَائِهِمْ, meaning I came at their rears.
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