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غَلْقٌ ذ is [said to be] the inf. n. of غَلَقَ as syn. with أَغْلَقَ: (S, O, Msb:) and (S, K) the subst. from the latter verb [q. v.]. (S, Mgh, K.) -A2- As an epithet, (O, K,) applied to a man, or to a camel, (K,) or to each of these, (O,) Old, or advanced in age, and lean, meagre, or emaciated: (O, K, TA:) accord. to the “ Nawádir, ” it is applied to an old man [app. as meaning lean, meagre, or emaciated]: (TA:) or red; (K;) or in this sense applied to a man, and to a skin for water or milk, and to leather: (Ibn-'Abbád, O:) or, accord. to AA, applied to a skin for water or milk, vitiated, or rendered unsound, in the tanning. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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