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سَلَقٌ ذ An even plain: (S:) or a smooth, even, tract, of good soil: (O, K: [a meaning erroneously assigned in the CK to سَلْقَةٌ:] or a depressed, even, plain, in which are no trees: (ISh:) or a low tract, or portion, of land, that produces herbage: (JK:) pl. [of mult.] سُلْقَانٌ (S, O, K) and سِلْقَانٌ (K) and [of pauc.] أَسْلَاقٌ, (JK, O, K,) and أَسَالِقُ is also a pl. of سَلَقٌ, or of its pl. أَسْلَاقٌ, as is likewise أَسَالِيقُ: (TA:) ↓ سَمْلَقٌ , also, with an augmentative م, signifies the same, and its pl. is سَمَالِقُ: (S:) or the pl. سُلْقَانٌ signifies meadows (رِيَاض) in the higher parts of [tracts such as are termed] بِرَاق [pl. of بُرْقَةٌ] and قِفَاف [pl. of قُفٌّ]. (Az, TA in art. روض.) ― -b2- See also سَلْقٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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