صَلِعَ

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صَلِعَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun صَلَعٌ, He was, or became, bald in the fore part of the head: or in the fore part of the head to the kinder part thereof: and likewise in the middle of the head. [See also جَلِحَ The original text has a dot above the jeem. and جَلَحٌ.] Accord. to Ibn-Seenà, the baldness termed صَلَعٌ does not happen to women, because of the abundance of their moisture; nor to eunuchs, because their constitutions are nearly like those of women.
2 [Hence,] صَلِعَتِ العُرْفُطَةُ, Verbal.Noun as above, The عرفطة [a species of mimosa] dropped the heads of its branches: and had them eaten by the camels.
3 See also 7.

def.2 صَلَعَ رَأْسَهُ [perhaps a mistranscription for , and primarily signifying He made his head bald in the fore part:] he shaved his head.

def.3 صَلَعَ said of such as is termed عِذْيَوْط, [but the verb in this sense is probably , ] He voided his ordure (أَحْدَثَ) on the occasion of جِمَاع.

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