الغَلْصَمَةُ
1.
[The epiglottis: and also, apparently by extension of the primary signification, the larynx, or upper part of the windpipe:] the thing that rises up in the uppermost part of the throat, and is said to throw the meat and drink into the œsophagus, or gullet: (Zj, in his “ Khalk-el-Insán: ”) the piece of flesh [or cartilage] that is between the head and the neck: or the
عُجْرَة [or projecting thing] that is upon the place where the uvula and gullet meet: (K:) or [by an extended application] the head of the
حُلْقُوم [or windpipe], (S, Msb, K,) with its [ducts called] شَوَارِب [q. v. voce شَارِبٌ] and its
حَرْقَدَة [apparently meaning pomum Adami]; (K;) i. e. the projecting place [or part] in the
حَلْق [here apparently meaning, as it does in many cases, throat]: (S, Msb:) or the root, or base, of the tongue: (K:) or the place where the
حُلْقُوم [or windpipe, i. e. the head thereof,] becomes in conjunction with the
حَلْق [or fauces] when the eater swallows a mouthful and it descends from [over] the
حُلْقُوم: (TA:) plural غَلَاصِمُ. (Msb.)
2.
Also (assumed tropical:) The chiefs, lords, nobles, or men of distinction: and the congregated or collective body [of a people], or the mass [thereof]; synonym الجَمَاعَةُ: (K:) plural as above. (TA.) And [hence] one says, هُوَ فِى غَلْصَمَةٍ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ i. e. فِى
شَرَفٍ وَعَدَدٍ [meaning (assumed tropical:) He is among (such as are distinguished by) nobility and number, of his
people], (ISk, K, TA,) [or] meaning, according to As, he is among the chief portion of his people, and the nobility thereof: (TA:) [and in the same sense
غَلْصَم is used, without ة, but perhaps only by poetic license:] Abu-n-Nejm says,
[(assumed tropical:) My father is, or was, Lujeym, and his fame (a tropical rendering) is what fills the mouth; one among the chief portion and the nobility of the headmen, and among headmen of a chief portion and of nobility]. (TA.)أَبِى لُجَيْمٌ وَاسْمُهُ مِلْءُ الفَمِفِى غَلْصَمِ الهَامِ وَهَامِ غَلْصَمِ