سِلْقٌ

[Bete; and particularly red garden-bete: so called in the present day; and also called شَوَنْدَر and سَوَنْدَر and بَنْجَر:] a certain plant, (S, Msb,) or herb (بَقْلَةٌ), (K,) that is eaten, (S,) well known; (Msb, K;) i. q. جغندر [or Jُغُنْدُرْ, whence the vulgar name شَوَنْدَر, and hence سَوَنْدَر]; so says ISh; i. e. in Pers.; in some of the MSS. جلندر [a mistranscription for JُGُنْدُرْ]; a plant having long leaves, and a root penetrating [deeply] into the earth, the leaves of which are tender, and are cooked: (TA:) it clears [the skin], acts as a dissolvent, and as a lenitive, and as an aperient, or a deobstruent; exhilarates, and is good for the نِقْرِس [i. e. gout, or podagra,] and the joints: its expressed juice, when poured upon wine, converts it into vinegar after two hours; and when poured upon vinegar, converts it into wine after four hours; and the expressed juice of its root, used as an errhine, is an antidote to toothache and earache and hemicrania. (K.) [See also حُمَّاضٌ, and كُرْنُبٌ.] سِلْقُ المَاءِ and سِلْقُ البَرِّ, also, are the names of Two plants. (K.)

Also The he-wolf: (S, Msb, K:) and سِلْقَةٌ the she-wolf: (S, K:) or the latter signifies thus; but سِلْقٌ is not applied to the he-wolf: (K:) the plural of سِلْقَةٌ is سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ: (JM, TA;) or these are pls. of سِلْقٌ; and the plural of سِلْقَةٌ is سِلَقٌ and سِلْقٌ, (K,) or [rather] this last is a coll. gen. n. of which سِلْقَةٌ is the n. un. (Sb.) Hence the prov., أَسْلَطُ مِنْ سِلْقَةٍ (JK, Meyd) i. e. More clamorous than a she-wolf: or it may mean more overpowering. (Meyd.)

And hence, (TA,) سِلْقَةٌ is applied to a woman as meaning (tropical:) Clamorous; or long-tongued and vehemently clamorous, (S, K, TA,) foul, evil, or lewd; (K, TA;) likened to the she-wolf in respect of her bad qualities: (TA:) plural سُلْقَانٌ and سِلْقَانٌ. (K.)

سِلْقَةٌ also signifies A female lizard of the kind called ضَبّ, (JK,) or a female locust, (TA,) when she has laid her eggs. (JK, TA.)

Also A water-course, or channel in which water flows, (K, TA,) between two tracts of elevated, or elevated and rugged, ground: or, according to As, an even, depressed tract of ground: (TA:) plural سُلْقَانٌ (K) and أَسْلَاقٌ and أَسَالِقُ, which (i. e. the second and third of these pls.) are also said to be pls. of سَلَقٌ [q. v.]. (TA.)