س • ل • ج

, aor. سَلَجَ , inf. n. سَلَجَانٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and سَلْجٌ, (S, O, K,) He swallowed (S, O, Msb, K) a morsel, or mouthful, or gobbet, (S, O, K,) and food, (TA,) or a thing; (Msb;) as also سَلَجَ, aor. سَلُجَ ; (Msb;) and ↓ تسلّج: (O, K: *) or سَلَجَانٌ signifies the eating quickly. (TA.) Hence the saying, الأَكْلُ سَلَجَانٌ وَالقَضَاءُ لَيَّانٌ [Eating is a swallowing, and paying is a putting off], (S, Meyd, O,) or الأَخْذُ سَلَجَانٌ الخ [Taking, or receiving, is a swallowing, &c.]: (Meyd, TA:) i. e., when a man receives a loan, or the like, he devours it [greedily]; but when he from whom he has received it demands his due, he puts him off by promising to pay it: (S, O:) a prov., (Meyd, O, TA,) applied to him who takes the property of others and to whom it is easy to do so; but when he is sued for payment, puts off, and it is difficult to him: (Meyd:) meaning that one loves to take, and hates to return, or restore. (L. [See also سُرَّيْطَى.]) سَلَجَ النَّاقَةَ, said of a young camel, He sucked the she-camel; (O, K;) as also مَلَجَهَا. (L, TA.) -A2- سَلَجَتِ الإِبِلُ, aor. سَلُجَ , (S, K, TA,) inf. n. سُلُوجٌ; (TA;) and سَلِجَت, aor. سَلَجَ ; (K, TA;) or the latter only accord. to AHn; (TA;) or the latter is better than the former accord. to Sh; (O, TA;) The camels had a looseness (S, K) of their bellies (S) from eating the plant called سُلَّج. (S, K.)

See سَلِجَ.

Also He persevered, or persisted, in drinking (Lh, O, K) the beverage called نَبِيذ, (Lh,) or wine; (O, K;) like تَزَلَّجَ; (Lh;) meaning he made it to enter his سِلِّجَان; (O;) or as though he filled with it his سِلِّجَان, (K,) i. e. his حُلْقُوم: (TA:) and so ↓ استلج. (O, K.)

Bald in the fore part of the head; like أَسْلَخُ; but the former is the more common. (TA in art. سلخ.)

and سُلَجْلَجٌ and ↓ سَلِيجٌ Good, or pleasant, food, (O, K, TA,) that is swallowed (K, TA) with ease. (TA.)

: see سَلَجْلَجٌ, below.

A سَاجَة, (O, K,) i. e. an oblong and squared piece of wood of the tree called سَاج, as brought from India, (TA in art. سوج,) from which a door is cloven, or divided off, lengthwise: (O, K:) so says AHn. (TA.) -A2- See also what next follows.

The حُلْقُوم [properly the windpipe, but here app. meaning the gullet: see 5]. (O, K.) One says, رَمَاهُ اللّٰهُ فِى سِلِّجَانِهِ [May God smite him, or afflict him, in his سلّجان]. (O.)

or سُلُّحَانٌ: see the next preceding paragraph, in three places.

A certain plant, (S, K,) upon which the camels pasture, (S,) soft, flaccid, or fragile, of the shrub-kind; (TA;) also called ↓ سُلُّجَانٌ, (K, TA,) or ↓ سُلَّجَانٌ, (CK,) like قمّحان; (K;) and ↓ سَلِيجَةٌ: (TA:) or the ↓ سلّجان, (O, TA,) i. e. سُلَّجَان, with damm to the س, and teshdeed and fet-h to the ل, (O,) is a species of the سُلَّج; (O, TA;) and this last is one of the largest of the kind of trees called حَمْض: (O:) accord. to AHn, (TA,) or as is said by some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, (O,) the سُلَّج is a large kind of trees, like the tails of the [lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ], green, and having thorns, and [of the kind termed] حَمْض: (O, TA:) in the T it is said to be a sort of حَمْض that ceases not to be green in the summer, or hot season, and in the رَبِيع [app. here meaning autumn], and is weak, or weak and soft: Az also says that it grows in the plains, or level tracts, has a fruit, or produce, with a sharpness in the extremities thereof, and is green in the [season called] رَبِيع, and then dries up, and becomes yellow: and he adds, [contr. to what has been said above, from his work, the T,] it is not reckoned among the trees called حَمْض. (L, TA.)