Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon, ط

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طَلْعٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) The طَلْع [i. e. spadix, or spadix in its spathe, and sometimes, the spathe alone,] of the palm-tree: (S, O:) the إِِغْرِيض [or spadix] of the palm-tree, from over which the كَافُور [or spathe] bursts open longitudinally; or the flowers of the palm-tree, while in the كافور; (TA;) a thing that comes forth from the palm-tree, as though it were two soles, or sandals, closed together, with the حِمْل [meaning flowers] compactly disposed between them, and having the extremity pointed; or the ثَمَرَة [or produce] of the palm-tree, in the first stage of its appearance, the covering [or spathe] of which is called the كُفُرَّى (K, TA) and the كَافُور, (TA,) and what is within this the إِِغْرِيض, because of its whiteness; (K, TA;) or the طَلْع is what comes forth from the palm-tree and becomes dates if the tree is female; and if the tree is male it does not become dates, but is eaten in its fresh state, or is left upon the palm-tree a certain number of days until there becomes produced in it a white substance like flour, [i. e. the pollen,] having a strong odour, and with this the female is fecundated; (Msb;) or a certain white thing that appears from the كِمّ [or spathe] of the palm-tree, to the colour of which [that of] the teeth are likened, and to the odour thereof [that of] the sperma: and also, [sometimes,] the كِمّ [or spathe] that comes forth from the palm-tree, before it bursts open longitudinally: [and this is also called the كُفُرَّى, for] the phrase طَلْعُ الكُفُزَّى is an instance of the prefixing of a noun to an explicative thereof: (Mgh:) [or this phrase may mean the spadix of the spathe of a palm-tree: طَلْعٌ, it should be added, is sometimes used as a coll. gen. n.: and its n. un. is with ة: thus in explanations of إِِغْرِيضٌ &c.] In the Kur xxxvii. 63, it is applied to (tropical:) The fruit, or produce, of the tree called الزَّقُّوم, in the bottom of Hell, metaphorically, because partaking of the form of the طلع of dates, or because coming forth from the tree. (Bd.) -A2- Also (assumed tropical:) i. q. مِقْدَارٌ [as meaning Number, or quantity]: (K, TA:) so in the phrase الجَيْشُ طَلْعُ أَلْفٍ [The army consists of the number of a thousand]. (K, * TA). -A3- See also the next paragraph, in three places.