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1 سَلَخَ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. سَلَخَ , (S, K, [as in the Kur xxxvi. 37,]) or سَلِخَ , (Msb, [but this I find in no other lexicon,]) and سَلُخَ , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. سَلْخٌ, (S, Msb,) He stripped off (S, K) the hide, or skin, of a sheep or goat: (S:) or he skinned a sheep or goat. (A, Msb.) And سُلِخَ جِلْدُهَا [Its skin was stripped off]. (A.) One does not say of a camel, سَلَخْتُ جِلْدَهُ; but كَشَطْتُهُ, and نَجَوْتُهُ, and أَنْجَيْتُهُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) He pulled off or stripped off [a garment]. (K, TA.) You say of a woman, سَلَخَتْ دِرْعَهَا, (S, TA,) and سَلَخَتْ عَنْهَا دِرْعَهَا, (A, TA,) (tropical:) She pulled off her shift; stripped it off. (S, TA.) ― -b3- And [hence,] سَلَخَ الشَّهْرَ, (S, A, Msb,) or شَهْرَهُ, (K,) aor. سَلَخَ (L, Msb) and سَلُخَ , (L,) inf. n. سَلْخٌ and سُلُوخٌ, (L, Msb,) (tropical:) He passed the month, or his month; (S, K, TA;) came to the end of it. (S, A, Msb, K.) سَلَخْنَا الشَّهْرَ means (tropical:) We passed forth from the month; having pulled off from ourselves every night one thirtieth part until the nights were complete, when we pulled off from ourselves all of it: and أَهْلَلْنَا هِلَالَ شَهْرِ كَذَا means “ We entered upon [the period of the new moon of] such a month; clothing ourselves with it and increasing the clothing of ourselves therewith until the passing of the half of it: ” then we pull off from ourselves [by degrees] the whole of it: hence a verse cited voce جُمَادَى. (T, TA.) And one says of God, سَلَخَ النَّهَارَ مِنَ اللَّيْلِ (tropical:) He drew forth gently the day from the night: (K, TA:) or He separated the day from the night. (Jel in xxxvi. 37.) ― -b4- See also 7, in three places. ― -b5- سَلَخَ الحَرُّ جِلْدَ الإِِنْسَانِ and [in an intensive sense] ↓ سلّخهُ (assumed tropical:) [The heat made the skin of the man to peel off; or excoriated the man]. (TA.) And سَلَخَ الجَرَبُ جِلْدَهُ (tropical:) [The mange, or scab, excoriated him, i. e., a camel]: (A, TA:) [and so سَلَخَهُ without the mention of the skin:] see سَالِخٌ. And سُلِخَ الظَّلِيمُ (assumed tropical:) The ostrich had a disease in his feathers [app. such as caused many of them to fall off]. (TA.) ― -b6- سَلَخَ النَّبَاتُ (assumed tropical:) [The plant shed its foliage, and then became altogether green again: (see سَالِخٌ:) or] the plant became green again after having dried up. (M, K.) ― -b7- فَسَلَخُوا مَوْضِعَ المَآءِ كَمَا يُسْلَخُ الإِِهَابُ فَخَرَجَ المَآءُ, in a trad. respecting Solomon and the هُدْهُد [or hoopoe, i. e. (assumed tropical:) And they stripped off the surface of the place of the water, like as the hide is stripped off, and thereupon the water came forth], means that they dug until they found the water. (TA.) ― -b8- سُلِخَ مِنْ بَطْنِ أُمِّهِ, said of a child, means (assumed tropical:) He was drawn out from the belly of his mother. (TA.) ― -b9- سَلْخُ الشِعْرِ is (assumed tropical:) The substituting throughout the poetry, for the original words, other words synonymous therewith: what falls short of this is termed مَسْخٌ. (TA. [See Har p. 263.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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