أَمْلَحُ

(tropical:) A ram, (S, K,) and a he-goat, (S,) of a white colour intermixed with black: (S, K:) any hair, and wool, and the like, in which are whiteness and blackness: (TA:) that in which are whiteness and blackness, the former colour predominating: (AZ, Ks and others:) or of a dusty white colour: or of a clear white colour: (Msb:) feminine مَلْحَاءُ; applied to a ewe of a white colour intermixed with black: (K:) or black, with its hair pervaded by whiteness. (TA.) Aboo-Dhubyán Ibn-Er-Raabal employs املح as one of four epithets which he applies to those old men most hateful to him. (S.)

Also, (tropical:) Blue, or gray, [see مُلْحَةٌ,] in such a degree as to incline to whiteness; an epithet applied to a man, &c. (Msb) أَمْلَحٌ العَيْنِ Having the eye of that colour. (S.)

Hence, كَتِيبَةٌ مَلْحَاءُ [meaning (tropical:) An army, or a troop of horse, appearing of a white and black, or gray, hue, by reason of their glittering weapons; see also كتيبة شَهْبَاءُ]: (S:) or one that is white and great: (TA:) or, great. (K.)

أَمْلَحُ (assumed tropical:) Dew that falls in the night upon leguminous plants: so called because of its whiteness. (L.) Er-Rá'ee says, describing some camels,

أَقَامَتْ بِهِ حَدَّ الرَّبِيعِ وَجَارُهَا

أَخُو سَلْوَةٍ مَسَّى بِهِ اللَّيْلُ أَمْلَحُ

meaning [by املح] dew: [They remained in it during the period of the season called الربيع, and their preserver from thirst was attended by comfort, being dew brought by the night]: he says, they remained in that place during the days of the season called الربيع, and while the dew lasted, so that he was (فَهُوَ [but this appears to be a mistake for فَهِىَ, “ so that they were, ”]) in a comfortable state of life: and he says مسّى به because the dew falls in the night: (S, L:) by جارها he means the night-dew which preserved them from thirst. (L.)

المَلْحَاءُ was also the name of a particular troop belonging to the family of ElMundhir, (S, K,) of the Kings of Syria, who had another called الشَّهْبَاءُ. (TA.)

نَمِرَةٌ مَلْحَاءُ A بُرْدَة with black and white stripes. (L.) شَجَرَةٌ مَلْحَاءُ (assumed tropical:) A tree of which the leaves have fallen, (L, K,) the branches, or twigs, remaining green. (L.)

المَلْحَاءُ (in a camel, L) (assumed tropical:) Certain flesh in the back, (situate within, L,) extending from the withers (الكَاهِل) to the rump: (L, K:) or the middle of the back, between the withers (الكاهل) and the rump: (T, S [in neither of which is reference made here to a camel]:) or the part between the hump of a camel and its rump: or the vertebræ of a camel over which is the hump: (L:) or, in a camel, the part beneath the hump; containing six vertebræ (مَحَالَات): plural مَلْحَاوَاتٌ. (T.) فَارسُ المَلْحَاءِ The fat of the hump. (L.)

أَمْلَحُ A horse having the kind of swelling called مَلَحٌ. (TA.)