This text is part of:
Table of Contents:
غَلَقٌ ذ [A lock;] a thing by means of which a door is made fast, (S, * O, * Msb, K, *) not to be opened save with a key; (S and K voce مِزْلَاجٌ;) a thing that is closed and opened with a key; (Mgh;) pl. أَغْلَاقٌ, (Sb, Msb, TA,) its only pl.: (Sb, TA:) and ↓ مِغْلَاقٌ is syn. therewith; (S, Mgh, O, Msb, K;) pl. مَغَالِيقُ: (Msb:) so too is ↓ مِغْلَقٌ : (Msb, TA:) and so ↓ مُغْلُوقٌ : (S, O, K:) and so ↓ غَلَاقٌ . (TA.) El-Farezdak has used its pl. metaphorically, [in a sense sufficiently obvious,] saying, “ فَبِتْنَ بِجَانِبَىَّ مُصَرَّعَاتٍ
وَبِتُّ أَفُضُّ أَغْلَاقَ الخِتَامِ
” meaning خِتَامَ الأَغْلَاقِ, the phrase being inverted by him. (TA.) ― -b2- Also i. q. رِتَاجٌ, meaning A great door: whence the phrase مَفَاتِيحُ أَغْلَاقِهَا, by which are meant [the keys of] the [great] doors thereof. (Mgh.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
The U.S. Department of Education, The Max Planck Society provided support for entering this text.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
hide
Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
