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شِلْوٌ ذ A limb, or member; (Msb, K;) as also ↓ شِلْوَةٌ : (TA:) or a limb, or member, of flesh-meat: whence, in a trad., ايتِنِى بِشِلْوِهَا الأَيْمَنِ [Bring thou to me its right limb]: (S:) pl. أَشْلَآءٌ (S, Msb, TA) and أَشْلٍ, [originally أَشْلُوٌ,] like أَدْلٍ pl. of دَلْوٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And The body of anything [i. e. of any animal]: as also ↓ شَلًا ; (K;) which latter is expl. by ISd as signifying the skin and body of anything; and is applied in a trad. to the inner side of a haunch as meaning having no flesh upon it: (TA:) [or,] accord. to IDrd, شِلْوُ الإِِنْسَانِ signifies the body of the man after its wasting, or decaying: (Msb, TA:) [or] أَشْلَآءُ الإِِنْسَانِ means the members, or limbs, of the man after wasting, or decaying, and becoming dissundered: (S, TA:) and (hence, Msb) one says, بَنُو فُلَانٍ أَشْلَآءٌ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) The sons of such a one are remains among the sons of such a one: (S, Msb:) and هُوَ مِنْ أَشْلَآءِ القَوْمِ (assumed tropical:) He is of the remains of the people: [for] شِلْوٌ signifies (assumed tropical:) a remain, or remaining portion: and شلىّ [app. شُلِىٌّ, said to be like غنىّ, but this is, I doubt not, a mistranscription for عُنِىٌّ, i. e. originally of the measure فُعُولٌ, is another pl. of شِلْوٌ, and ] signifies (assumed tropical:) remains of any thing. (TA.) [See also شَلِيَّةٌ.] ― -b3- Also Any skinned animal of which somewhat has been eaten and a portion remains: (K:) or a portion remaining, whether much or little, of a sheep or goat of which part has been eaten: (L voce سَلِيخٌ:) pl. أَشْلَآءٌ. (K.) ― -b4- And أَشْلَآءُ اللِّجَامِ (assumed tropical:) The straps, or thongs, of the bit or bridle: (A, K:) or such as have become old, and of which the iron appertenance has become slender, (K, TA,) or, as in the M, [of which] the iron appertenances [have become slender], without straps, or thongs: app. likened to limbs, or members, of flesh-meat. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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