سَخْلَةٌ

A lamb, or kid, in whatever state it be; (K;) male or female: (TA:) or a lamb, or kid, when just born; male or female: (S, M, O, Msb, K:) or, according to some, peculiarly applied to a lamb; and this is affirmed by 'Iyád and Er-Ráfi'ee: according to some, peculiarly to a kid; and so affirms IAth: (TA:) [see also بَهْمٌ, in three places:] plural ↓ سَخْلٌ, (S, O, Msb, K,) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.] like as تَمْرٌ is of تَمْرَةٌ, (Msb,) [and is apparently also used as a singular, (see the next preceding paragraph,)] and [the plural properly so termed is] سِخَالٌ (S, O, Msb, K) and سِخَلَةٌ, which is extr. [as a plural form, so much so that Sb holds it to be a quasi-plural measure, not a broken plural measure, as is said in the TA voce جِبَأَةٌ]. (K.)