سِلَابٌ

singular of سُلُبٌ, which signifies The black garments of women at their assemblies for mourning: (S:) MF says that the former is explained in the K as meaning black garments, which necessarily implies that it is a plural; and the latter is there said to be its plural, which necessarily implies that it is a singular: (TA:) [but it may be replied that the author of the K regarded the former as a plural without a singular; and the latter, as a plural plural:] or both signify black garments worn by women; and the singular is سَلَبَةٌ: (M:) according to the T, سِلَابٌ signifies a black garment with which a woman mourning for the death of her husband covers her head: according to the R, a black خِرْقَة [or piece torn off from a garment or cloth] that is worn by a woman bereft of her child, or of a person beloved, by death. (TA.)