عَلْقَى
Root: علق
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عَلْقَى
, like سَكْرَى, A certain plant: accord. to Sb, it is used as sing. and pl.; and its alif [written ى] is to denote the fem. gender, therefore it is without tenween: but others say that its alif is to render it quasi-coordinate [to the quadriliteral-radical class], and is with tenween, the n. un. being عَلْقَاةٌ: IJ says that the alif in عَلْقَاةٌ is not to denote the fem. gender, because it is followed by ة; but when they elide the ة, they say عَلْقَى, without tenween: its twigs are slender, difficult to be broken, and brooms are made of it: Aboo-Nasr says, the علقى is a tree [or plant] of which the greenness continues during the hot season, and its places of growth are the sands, and the plain, or soft, tracts: and he says, an Arab of the desert showed me a plant which he asserted to be the علقى; having long and slender twigs, and delicate leaves; called in Pers.
خُلْوَام [?]; those who collect [the dung used for fuel called] جَلَّة
make of it brooms for that purpose: to which he adds, and it is said, on the authority of the early Arabs, that the علقاة is a certain tree [or plant] which is found in the sands, green, having leaves, but in which is no good: [it is said, however, that] the decoction thereof is drunk for the dropsy.
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