مَحْلَبٌ
Root: حلب
Full Definition
def.2 [Also The prunus mahaleb of Linn.; a small kernel of the stone of a wild cherry, much esteemed by the Egyptians, and employed by them in many diseases, as a bechic and carminative; brought from Europe: ] a kind of odoriferous tree: a certain tree having a grain (حَبّ [which may mean a kernel]) that is put into perfumes and aromatics; the perfume in which it is incorporated being termed مَحْلَبِيَّةٌ : so say IDrst and others: AHn says that he had not heard of its growing anywhere in the country of the Arabs: accord. to Aboo-Bekr Ibn-Talhah, a tree having a grain (حَبّ) like that of the رَيْحَان [which is likewise used in medicine, called بِزْرُ الرَّيْحَانِ, i. e. the seed of the ocimum basilicum, or common sweet basil]: accord. to Aboo-'Obeyd El-Bekree, the [tree called] أَرَاك: [J says,] حَبُّ المَحْلَبِ is an aromatic medicine, the place whereof is المَحْلَبِيَّةُ, which is a town (بَلَدٌ) near El-Mósil: IKh calls it a kind of perfume: some say it is the grain of the خِرْوَع [or castor-oil-plant]: others, that the محلب is the fruit, or produce, of the kind of tree termed شَجَرُ اليُسْرِ, which the Arabs call الأُسْر: IDrd says that it is the grain with which one perfumes; calling the grain by the name of محلب: the best is the white, pearly, and clear. Accord. to IDrst, this word is originally an Verbal.Noun, and حبّ المحلب and شجرة المحلب mean حبّ الحلب and شجرة الحلب. (TA. [IbrD informs me that it is a custom of some of the Arabs, previously to their milking, to chew some محلب, and to anoint with it the teat of the animal.])
def.3 Honey.
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