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صَالِغٌ ذ part. n. of 1 [q. v.], (S, O, Msb, K,) an epithet applied to the male and the female of all cloven-hoofed animals, (Msb,) or to an animal of the bovine kind and to the sheep or goat, (S, O, K,) I. q. سَالِغٌ, (IDrd, O, TA,) which latter is said by Sb to be the original, the ص being substituted for the س because of the غ: (TA:) or, applied to a sheep or goat (Ibn-Abbád, O, K) and to a bovine animal, (K,) it is like قَارِحٌ [q. v.] applied to a horse: (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K:) or in the fifth year, (As, IF, O, K,) as applied to a sheep: (As, IF, O:) or in the sixth year, (AZ, O, K,) as applied to a sheep or goat: (AZ, O:) or a sheep or goat advanced in age: (IDrd, O:) [see more in art. سلغ:] the pl. is صُلَّغٌ (IAar, S, O, K) and صَوَالِغُ, (IAar, O, K,) both of which are applied to كِبَاش, (K,) [or rather] the former pl. is thus applied by Ru-beh, who by كِبَاش in this instance means “ heroes, ” or “ brave men. ” (S, O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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