سلب

[The word here might be thought a mistranscription for استلبهُ, were it not for the instance of the same verb mentioned above, and for the fact that it is immediately followed by وَهُوَ مُسْلَبُ العَقْلِ; perhaps, however, مُسْلَب may here be a mistake for مُسْلِب.]

Used in this way in grammar and logic, as opposed to إِثْبَاتٌ and إِيجَابٌ.

ثمام is the panic grass, and خُوص its leaves: see سَلَبٌ.

Spoil, plunder, or booty; what is seized, or carried off, by force from a man, whatever the spoils may be, including all the clothing that is on him. So Lth and Az and the Bāriʾ.

Or whatever one of two antagonists in war takes from the other, of what is on him and with him, that is, clothes and weapons, and his beast.

Of the measure فَعَلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, that is, the same as مَسْلُوبٌ, used like a noun, or as an adjective in which the quality of a noun is dominant. Plural أَسْلَابٌ.

Also the hide and shanks and paunch of a slaughtered animal.

Apparently so called because given to the slaughterer, as though they were his spoil; or, in the case of an animal of the chase, to the dog or dogs: see the verses cited under بَدَنٌ.

The peel, or rind, or skin, of a cane, or reed, and of a tree.

And particularly the bark, or rind, of a kind of tree well known in El-Yemen, of which ropes are made, and which is coarser and harder than the fibres of the Theban palm-tree. This is why a well-known kind of thick rope, made of the fibres of the common palm-tree, is called by the common people سَلَبَةٌ.

Or the bark of a kind of tree of which baskets called سِلَال are made. There is a market called سُوقُ السَّلَّابِينَ in El-Medeeneh, and in Mekkeh also, being the market of those who sell or make what is made of سَلَب.

It is also said to be a certain kind of tall tree, growing symmetrically, which is taken and laid beneath hot ashes and then split open, whereupon a white مُشَاقَة [or coarse fibrous substance] comes out of it, like the fibres of the palm-tree called لِيف; and it is one of the best materials of which ropes are made. The ism waḥda is with ة.

AHn says it is a plant which grows in shape like candles, except that it is larger and longer, and of which ropes of every sort are made.

Some say it is the fibrous substance of the Theban palm-tree, which is brought from Mekkeh; Lth asserts this, and adds that it is white; but Az says that Lth has erred about it.

A'Obeyd says: I asked about it, and was told that it is not the fibrous substance of the Theban palm-tree, but a kind of tree well known in El-Yemen, of which ropes are made.

Some say it is the خُوص [or leaves] of the ثَمَام [or panic grass]; and SM says that this is what is commonly known among us in El-Yemen. According to Forskål (Flor. Aegypt. Arab., p. 110) this name is applied in El-Yemen to a species of hyacinth, which he calls hyacinthus aporus.

A poet, [Murrah] Ibn-Mahkán [El-Temeemee], says:

— that is, And he stripped off quickly the skin from her, while she was lying upon her breast, like the two hands of the twister of ropes stripping off quickly the seleb. This is in art. نش.

Some read قَاتِلٍ, meaning by the word following it what is seized, or carried off by force, from one slain. As read فَاتِلٍ with ف, and IAar with ق; Th says that the right reading is that of As.

Applied to a spear, and to a man and the like. Plural سُلُبٌ.

It is also a plural of سَلِبٌ; and of سِلَابٌ as a noun; and of سَلُوبٌ as an adjective applied to a spear; and of the same, or of سِلَابٌ, as an adjective applied to a she-camel and to a woman; and of سَلِيبٌ as an adjective applied to a tree.

And see also سِلَابٌ.

And a sinew that is bound upon an arrow; according to AHn, the sinew that is wound upon the لِيط [or skin of the reed, or cane] of the arrow.

And, more commonly, spoiled, despoiled, plundered, or deprived of what one had on one or with one; and so also سَلَبٌ, though apparently in the first sense only.

Or a tree of which the leaves and fruit have been taken. Plural سُلُبٌ.

The singular is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ.

Here سُلُبٌ is used as a singular, like other words of the same measure mentioned below.

Said also of a woman whose loved and loving relation or friend has died. So too مُسَلِّبٌ and سَلُوبٌ. Or مُسَلِّبٌ, so applied, means simply putting on, or wearing, the black garments of mourning.

See an example of this last word with the affix ة used as a plural, in a verse cited under خَطْبٌ, and an example of its plural, مُسَلِّبَات, in a verse cited under ثَدْىُ.

Applied to a she-camel, and so also سَالِبٌ and سَلُوبٌ and مُسْلِبٌ — the last written in one instance in the copies erroneously مُسَلِّبٌ — and سُلُبٌ, with damm to the first and second letters, [in the CK سُلْبٌ, and said to be with damm,] or سَلُوبٌ so applied, and سِلَابٌ: whose young one has died; or that has cast her young one in an imperfect state. In this latter sense, as applied to a she-camel, مُسْلِبٌ is particularly mentioned.

It is applied in like manner to a woman. The plural of سَلُوبٌ, or of سِلَابٌ, is سُلُبٌ (expressly stated to be like كُتُبٌ, but in the CK سُلْبٌ) and سَلَائِبُ; and sometimes they said اِمْرَأَةٌ سُلُبٌ, like نَاقَةٌ عُلُطٌ and فَرَسٌ فُرُطٌ and many other instances listed by A'Obeyd, in which words of the measure فُعُلٌ without ة are used as feminine adjectives.

Or سَلُوبٌ means a she-camel whose young one has been taken, and its plural is سَلَائِبُ. Applied to a she-camel it also means اَلَّتِى يُرْمَى وَلَدُهَا [which may mean whose young one is cast abortively; or cast away because abortive; or shot at and killed].

It is also applied to a she-gazelle, meaning deprived of her young one; and so سَالِبٌ.

Applied to a man, it also means مُسْتَلَبُ العَقْلِ [deprived of reason]; and one says also مُسْلَبُ العَقْلِ [perhaps a mistranscription for مُسْلِب: see form 1], which is figurative. Plural سَلْبَى.

A road, or way, that one takes; any extended road or way; a way or direction in which one goes; a way, course, mode, or manner of acting or conduct or the like; a mode, manner, sort, or species; the same as فَنٌّ. Plural أَسَالِيبُ.

Synonym فُنُونٍ or أَفَانِينَ.

Said of one who is proud: he looks neither to the right nor to the left. Hence أُسْلُوبٌ is said to mean also elevation in the nose, from pride.

Also the opening of a watering-trough, or tank, through which the water flows. IAar, in art. بيب.

And the neck of the lion.

A saying by which a man is likened to a wild animal.