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شِمْرَاخٌ ذ (S, Mgh, Msb, K) and ↓ شُمْرُوخٌ (S, Msb, K) A [fruit-] stalk of the raceme of a palm-tree; (Mgh;) the عِثْكَال, (S, L,) or thing, (Msb,) upon which are the dates; (L, Msb;) [i. e. any one of the stalks that branch off from the main stem of the raceme, and on which hang the dates; each of these stalks comprising a number of dates, one below another:] pl. of both شَمَارِيخُ: (Msb:) the عِذْق, or كِبَاسَة, [q. v.,] comprises the شَمَارِيخ: (Msb voce عِذْقٌ:) or an عِثْكَال upon which are unripe dates, or grapes: (K:) originally relating to a raceme of dates; but sometimes, to grapes: (L:) and the former word [or each] signifies a small bunch of grapes, growing apart, but attached to the lower portion of the stalk of a larger bunch. (T, TA.) ― -b2- Also, شِمْرَاخٌ, The head of a mountain: (S, K:) or a round, tall, slender head, or peak, of a mountain: (L:) accord. to As, [the pl.] شَمَارِيخُ signifies the heads of mountains: (TA:) or it signifies the upper, or uppermost, part [or parts] of a mountain; and in like manner, of trees. (Ham p. 786.) And (assumed tropical:) The upper, or uppermost, parts of clouds: (K:) or [the pl.] شَمَارِيخُ is metaphorically applied to the upper, or uppermost, parts of clouds. (Ham ubi suprà.) ― -b3- And A blaze upon the face of a horse, when it is narrow, (S, K, TA,) and long, (TA,) and extending so as to cover the [part of the nose called] خَيْشُوم, but not reaching to the lip: (S, K, TA:) or a blaze, upon the face of a horse, extending downwards on the nose. (Lth, TA.) [See غُرَّةٌ سَائِلَةٌ, in art. سيل.] Accord. to J, The horse itself [that has such a blaze] is also thus called; but this is a mistake: (K:) it seems that he meant to have said ذُو شِمْرَاخٍ; but this, in a verse which he cites, is the name of a horse of Málik Ibn-'Owf En-Nadree, as is said in the K. (MF.) ― -b4- [The pl.] الشَّمَارِيخُ is also a name applied by the Arabs to (assumed tropical:) The stars of Centaurus (قَنْطُورُس) and Lepus (السَّبُعُ) collectively. (Kzw.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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