سَلْحٌ

Excrement, ordure, or dung: (L, TA: [and evidently so according to the Msb; in my copy of which, and so, apparently, in the copy used by SM, immediately after the mention and explanation of the verb سَلَحَ, is added, وهو سلحة تسمية بالمصدر; plainly showing, by what follows سلحة, that this word is a mistranscription for سَلْحُهُ; and that the meaning is, “ and it is its سَلْح, an instance of the verbal noun used as a subst. properly so called; ” i. e., the dung of a bird is called its سَلْح; for the verb is there said to relate to a bird; though in truth it has a general application:]) or such as is thin, of any dung: (L, TA: [and this is the sense in which it is commonly known:]) and سُلَاحٌ signifies [the same: i. e.] excrement, ordure, or dung, (S, A, MA, L, K, KL,) of a human being, (KL,) or of a bird (MA) [and of any animal]: or thin excrement or dung: (MA:) this latter is said to be the correct meaning in a marginal note in a copy of the S: (TA:) the plural of the former is سُلُوحٌ and سُلْحَانٌ. (L, TA.) [رَمَى بِسَلْحِهِ frequently occurs in the Lexicons &c., meaning He cast forth his excrement, or ordure; or properly, in a thin state.] يَا سَلْحَ الغُرَابِ [lit. O dung of the crow], an expression used by 'Omar, means يَا خَبِيثُ (assumed tropical:) [O foul, or filthy, man]. (Mgh.)

Perseus ID: n20373