Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سمغ سمق سمقر


1. ⇒ سمق

سَمَقَ, (Ṣ, O, L, Ḳ,) aor. ـُ {يَسْمُقُ}, (O, L,) inf. n. سُمُوقٌ (Ṣ, O, L, Ḳ) and سَمْقٌ, (L,) It was, or became, high, or tall: (Ṣ, O, L, Ḳ:) or tall in the highest degree: (JK:) said of a plant, or herbage, (JK, L,) of a tree, and [particularly] of a palmtree. (L.)

Root: سمق - Entry: 1. Signification: A2

سِمِقٌّ

سِمِقٌّ Tall; applied to a man. (Kr, TA.) [See also سَامِقٌ.]


سُمَاقٌ

سُمَاقٌ Pure; sheer; unmixed. (Ṣ, O, Ḳ.) You say كَذِبٌ سُمَاقٌ A sheer, unmixed, lie; (Ṣ, O;) and حُبٌّ سُمَاقٌ pure, unmixed, love; meaning such as have overtopped (سَمَقَا↓) every lie and love. (O.)


سَمُوقٌ

سَمُوقٌ: see سُمَّاقٌ.


سَمِيقٌ

سَمِيقٌ: see سَامِقٌ.

Root: سمق - Entry: سَمِيقٌ Dissociation: B

The dual, سَمِيقَانِ, signifies The [yokes or] two pieces of wood that belong to the نِير, surrounding the necks of the two bulls, (Ṣ, Z, O, Ḳ,) like the neck-ring, (Ṣ, O,) the two extremities of each being made to meet together beneath the bull's dewlap, and bound with a cord: (Z, TA:) pl. أَسْمِقَةٌ. (TA.)

Root: سمق - Entry: سَمِيقٌ Signification: B2

And [its pl.,] أَسْمِقَةٌ, Certain pieces of wood in the utensil upon which bricks, or crude bricks, (لَبِن,) are conveyed. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, L, Ḳ.)


سُمَّاقٌ / سُمَّاقَةٌ

سُمَّاقٌ (Ṣ, O, Ḳ) andسَمُوقٌ↓, (O, Ḳ,) in the Tekmileh with teshdeed, [i. e.سَمُّوقٌ↓,] (TA,) [Sumach; the rhus coriaria of Linn.; or its berry:] a certain fruit, (Ḳ,) well known; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) a certain acid thing, with which one cooks; (O;) the fruit of certain trees of the [high grounds termed] قِفَاف and of the mountains, acid, consisting of bunches of small berries, which are cooked; (AḤn, TA;) not known to AḤn as growing in any part of the land of the Arabs except in Syria; and he says that it is intensely red: in the T, said to be the acid berry called عَبْرَب: n. un. with ة {سُمَّاقَةٌ}: (TA:) it excites appetence; stops chronic diarrhœa; and the application of water in which it has been steeped, or macerated, as a collyrium, is beneficial for the [disorder termed] سُلَاق and for ophthalmia. (Ḳ.)


سَمُّوقٌ


سُمَّاقِيَّةٌ

قِدْرٌ سُمَّاقِيَّةٌ: see عَرَبْرَبِيَّةٌ, in art عرب


سَامِقٌ

سَامِقٌ andسَمِيقٌ↓ High, or tall; applied to a plant, or herbage, and to a tree, and [particularly] to a palm-tree. (L.) [See also سِمِيقٌ.]


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