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سلّحهُ He armed him with a weapon or weapons. (A.) And سلّحهُ السَّيْفَ , (K, TA,) and القَوْسَ , (TA,) He armed him with the sword, (K, TA,) and the bow. (TA.) -A2- سلّح الاـِبِلَ , (A, TA,) inf. n. تَسِْيحٌ , (TA,) It caused the camels to void سُلَاح [or thin excrement; i. e. it purged them]; said of a herb. (A, TA.) [See also 4.] -A3- سلّح نِحْيَهُ , inf. n. as above, He rubbed over his نِحْى [or skin for holding clarified butter] with سُلْح , i. e. rob, or inspissated juice. (K, TA.)

اسلحهُ He made him to void سُلَاح [or thin excrement]. (S, K.) [See also 2.]

تسلّح He wore, or put on, [or armed himself with,] a weapon, or weapons. (S, A, L, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تَسَلَّحَتِ الاـِبِلُ بِأَسْلِحَتِهَا : see سِلَاحٌ .

سَلْحٌ Excrement, ordure, or dung: (L, TA: [and evidently so accord. to the Msb; in my copy of which, and so, app., in the copy used by SM, immediately after the mention and explanation of the verb سَلَحَ , is added, وهو سلحة تسمية بالمصدر ; plainly showing, by what follows سلحة , that this word is a mistranscription for سَلْحُهُ ; and that the meaning is, “ and it is its سَلْح , an instance of the inf. n. used as a subst. properly so called; ” i. e., the dung of a bird is called its سَلْح ; for the verb is there said to relate to a bird; though in truth it has a general application:]) or such as is thin, of any dung: (L, TA: [and this is the sense in which it is commonly known:]) and ↓ سُلَاحٌ signifies [the same: i. e.] excrement, ordure, or dung, (S, A, MA, L, K, KL,) of a human being, (KL,) or of a bird (MA) [and of any animal]: or thin excrement or dung: (MA:) this latter is said to be the correct meaning in a marginal note in a copy of the S: (TA:) the pl. of the former is سُلُوحٌ and سُلْحَانٌ . (L, TA.) [ رَمَى بِسَلْحِهِ frequently occurs in the Lexicons &c., meaning He cast forth his excrement, or ordure; or properly, in a thin state.] يَا سَلْحَ الغُرَابِ [lit. O dung of the crow], an expression used by 'Omar, means يَا خَبِيثُ (assumed tropical:) [O foul, or filthy, man]. (Mgh.)

سُلْحٌ signifies رُبّ [i. e. Rob, or inspissated juice, generally of dates,] with which a skin for clarified butter is rubbed over, (K, TA,) for the purpose of seasoning it. (TA.)

سِلْحٌ : see سِلَاحٌ .

سَلَحٌ Rain-water in pools left by torrents: (K:) so says ISh: but not heard by Az from the Arabs. (TA.)

سُلَحٌ The young of the حَجَل [or partridge]; (S, K;) like سُلَكٌ and سُلَفٌ : (S:) [a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة : for] it is said in the T that سُلَحَةٌ and سُلَكَةٌ signify the young one of the حَجَل : (TA:) pl. سِلْحَانٌ , (T, S, K,) like سِلْكَانٌ . (T, TA.)

سِلَحٌ : see سِلَاحٌ .

سُلْحَانٌ : see سِلَاحٌ .

سُلَاحٌ : see سَلْحٌ . ― -b2- [Also A looseness, or flux of thin excrement from the bowels: diarrhœa.]

سِلَاحٌ , (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K, &c.,) as also ↓ سَلِحٌ (accord. to the K) or ↓ سِلْحٌ (accord. to the Msb) and ↓ سُلْحَانٌ , (K,) [the last mentioned in the L as a pl.,] A weapon, or weapons; i. e. an instrument, or instruments, of war; (A, K;) the thing [or things] with which one fights in war, and repels, or defends oneself; (Msb;) anything with which one repels the enemy, as a sword and spear &c.: (Ham p. 73:) or a weapon, or weapons, of iron: (Lth, Mgh, K:) it is of the masc. gender, (S, Msb, TA,) accord. to the more approved usage, (TA,) or that which most prevails, (Msb,) because in the pl. it takes the form of أَسْلِحَةٌ , which is a pl. form of a masc. n., (S, Msb, *) as in the instances of أَحْمِرَةٌ , pl. of حِمَارٌ , and أَرْدِيَةٌ , pl. of رِدَا=ءٌ , (S,) but it is also fem., (S, Msb, K,) and has also for pls. سُلُحٌ and سُلْحَانٌ , (L,) and the pl. fem. is سِلَاحَاتٌ . (Msb.) You say رَجُلٌ ذُو سِلَاحٍ [A man having a weapon or weapons]. (K.) And قَوْمٌ ذَوُو سِلَاحٍ [A people, or party, having weapons, or arms]. (S, A, K.) And لَبِسَ السِّلَاحَ [He wore, or put on, the weapon, or the weapons, or arms]. (S, A, K.) And أَخَذَ القَوْمُ أَسْلِحَتَهُمْ The people, or party, took their weapons, or arms, each taking his. (Msb.) ― -b2- A sword (Az, Mgh, K) alone is sometimes termed سِلَاحٌ . (Az, Mgh.) ― -b3- And A bow without a string (K) is likewise thus termed. (TA.) ― -b4- And A staff, or stick. (K.) ― -b5- سِلَاحُ لثَّوْرِ means (assumed tropical:) The horns of the bull. (S, * TA.) ― -b6- ذُو السِّلَاحِ is (tropical:) an appel-lation of السَّمَاكُ الرَّامِحُ [i. e. The star Arcturus]. (A, TA.) ― -b7- And أَخَذَتِ الاـِبِلُ سِلَاحَهَا and بِأَسْلِحَتِهَا mean (tropical:) The camels became fat, and of goodly appearance; (A, L, TA;) i. e. their fat became as though it were weapons with which they prevented their being slaughtered: (L, TA:) and the like has been mentioned before, [voce رُمْحٌ ,] in art. رمح . (TA.)

سَالِحٌ A man having, (K,) or having with him, (S,) a weapon, or weapons: (S, K:) an epithet [of the possessive kind, having no verb,] similar to تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ . (TA.) -A2- And A she-camel that has voided excrement, [or thin excrement,] in consequence [of the eating] of herbs, or leguminous plants. (S, K.)

أَسْلَحُ مِنْ حُبَارَى [More wont to mute than a bustard] (Meyd, A, Mgh) and مِنْ دَجَاجَةٍ [than a domestic hen]: the former mutes in the time of fear; and the latter, in the time of security: (Meyd:) a prov. (Meyd, Mgh.)

اـِسْلِيحٌ A certain plant, the pasturing upon which causes the milk (S, K) of the camels (S) to become abundant: (S, K:) or a certain kind of tree, or shrub, that has this effect: (L:) [see also اـِسْلِيخٌ :] it was said to an Arab woman of the desert, “ What is thy father's tree? ” and she answered, شَجَرَةُ أَبِى الاـِسْلِيحْ رُغْوَةٌ وَصَرِيحٌ وَسَنَامٌ اـِطْرِيحْ [The tree of my father is the isleeh: froth upon the milk, and milk free from froth; and a long, or tall, hump: these are the consequences of pasturing upon it]: (S, * L:) or it is a certain herb, or leguminous plant, of those that are slender and soft ( مِنْ أَحْرَارِ البُقُولِ ), growing in the winter, that causes the camels to void سُلَاح [or thin excrement] when they eat much of it: or a certain herb ( عُشْبَة ), resembling the جِرْجِير [or rocket], growing upon tracts of sand such as are termed حُقُوف : or a certain kind of plant, growing conspicuously in plain, or soft, tracts, having a thin and delicate leaf, and a pericarp ( سِنْفَة ) stuffed with grains, or seeds, like those of the poppy; which is one of the plants of the rain of the صَيْف [here meaning spring (see زَمَنٌ )], and which causes the cattle to void سُلَاح : n. un. with ة : Aboo-Ziyád says that the places in which the اسليح grows are sands. (L.)

مَسْلَحَةٌ A ثَغْر [or frontier of a hostile country]: (K:) or a place of arms or weapons, (Mgh,) like a ثَغْر and a مَرْقَب [which is an elevated place of observation], (S, Mgh, TA,) wherein are parties that watch the enemy, lest they should make an invasion at unawares, and , when they see them, inform their companions, in order that they may prepare themselves for them: (Nh, TA:) pl. مَسَالِحُ . (S, Mgh.) ― -b2- Also, [in one of my copies of the S erroneously written مُسَلَّحَة ,] A people, or party, having arms, or weapons; an armed people or party; (S, A, K, TA;) composing a numerous body, in a place of observation, with the keeping of which they are entrusted, at the frontier of an enemy's country; a single person of whom is termed ↓ مَسْلَحِىٌّ ; (A, * L;) and مَسْلَحَةٌ [also] is thus applied to a single person in a saying of 'Omar: (Mgh:) they are thus called because of their having weapons, or because of their occupying the place called مَسْلَحَةٌ : (Nh:) or the مسلحة of the army are a party of capturers that go before the army, exploring for them the way, and searching as spies to learn news of the enemy, lest the enemy should make a sudden assault upon them; not suffering any one of the enemy to enter the territory of the Muslims, and warning the Muslims of the approach of an army. (ISh.)

مَسْلَحِىٌّ : see the next preceding paragraph.