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سمق

1 سَمَقَ ذ , (S, O, L, K,) aor. سَمُقَ , (O, L,) inf. n. سُمُوقٌ (S, O, L, K) and سَمْقٌ, (L,) It was, or became, high, or tall: (S, O, L, K:) or tall in the highest degree: (JK:) said of a plant, or herbage, (JK, L,) of a tree, and [particularly] of a palmtree. (L.) ― -b2- See also سُمَاقٌ. سِمِقٌّ ذ Tall; applied to a man. (Kr, TA.) [See also سَامِقٌ.] سُمَاقٌ ذ Pure; sheer; unmixed. (S, O, K.) You say كَذِبٌ سُمَاقٌ A sheer, unmixed, lie; (S, O;) and حُبٌّ سُمَاقٌ pure, unmixed, love; meaning such as have overtopped (↓ سَمَقَا ) every lie and love. (O.) سَمُوقٌ ذ : see سُمَّاقٌ. سَمِيقٌ ذ : see سَامِقٌ. -A2- The dual, سَمِيقَانِ, signifies The [yokes or] two pieces of wood that belong to the نِير, surrounding the necks of the two bulls, (S, Z, O, K,) like the neck-ring, (S, O,) the two extremities of each being made to meet together beneath the bull's dewlap, and bound with a cord: (Z, TA:) pl. أَسْمِقَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And [its pl.,] أَسْمِقَةٌ, Certain pieces of wood in the utensil upon which bricks, or crude bricks, (لَبِن,) are conveyed. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, L, K.) سُمَّاقٌ ذ (S, O, K) and ↓ سَمُوقٌ , (O, K,) in the Tekmileh with teshdeed, [i. e. ↓ سَمُّوقٌ ,] (TA,) [Sumach; the rhus coriaria of Linn.; or its berry:] a certain fruit, (K,) well known; (S, K;) a certain acid thing, with which one cooks; (O;) the fruit of certain trees of the [high grounds termed] قِفَاف and of the mountains, acid, consisting of bunches of small berries, which are cooked; (AHn, TA;) not known to AHn as growing in any part of the land of the Arabs except in Syria; and he says that it is intensely red: in the T, said to be the acid berry called عَبْرَب: n. un. with ة: (TA:) it excites appetence; stops chronic diarrhœa; and the application of water in which it has been steeped, or macerated, as a collyrium, is beneficial for the [disorder termed] سُلَاق and for ophthalmia. (K.) سَمُّوقٌ ذ : see the next preceding paragraph. قِدْرٌ سُمَّاقِيَّةٌ ذ : see عَرَبْرَبِيَّةٌ, in art عرب سَامِقٌ ذ and ↓ سَمِيقٌ High, or tall; applied to a plant, or herbage, and to a tree, and [particularly] to a palm-tree. (L.) [See also سِمِيقٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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