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صِلِّيَانٌ ذ , of the measure فِعْلِيَانٌ, (S, O,) or, accord. to some, of the measure فِعِّلَانٌ, (TA in art. صلى,) A certain plant; (K;) a certain herb, or leguminous plant; (بَقْلَةٌ;) (S, O;) a sort of plants (شَجَرٌ [which means thus as well as “ trees ” &c.]), said by AHn to be of the [kind called] طَرِيفَة, that grows upwards, the thickest portions whereof are the stems (أَعْجَاز) and the lower parts, of the size of the حَلِىّ, and the places of its growth are the plain, or soft, tracts, and the meadows (رِيَاض): AA, he adds, says that it is of the [kind called] جَنْبَة, because of its thickness and lastingness: (M:) Az says that it is of the best kind of herbage, or pasture, and has a [root such as is termed] جِعْثِنَة, and thin leaves: (TA:) it is called خُبْزَةُ الإِِبِلِ [the bread of the camels]: (TA in art. صلى:) the n. un. is with ة. (S, M, O, K.) It is said in a prov., (S, M, O,) of a man who hastens to swear an oath, (S, O,) or of one who boldly ventures to swear a false oath, (TA,) and has no impediment in his speech (S, O, TA) in doing so, (TA,) جَذَّهَا جَذَّ العَيْرِ الصِّلِّيَانَةَ (S, M, O, TA) He hastened to it as the ass hastens to the صلّيانة: (L in art. جذ:) because the ass often plucks out the صلّيانة by the root when he takes it for pasture. (S, O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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