سلسبل
سَلْسَبِيلٌ, a quinqueliteral-radical word, (
M,) Easy [as a beverage] in the utmost degree: (
TA:) [applied as an
epithet to milk, (لَبَن, so in a copy of the
M, and so in the
CK,) or signifying smooth, (لَيِّن, so in copies of the
K,)] in which is no roughness: (
M,
K:) and sometimes applied as an
epithet to water, (
M,
TA,) or beverage, meaning easy of entrance into the throat, or fauces. (
TA.)
b2: And Wine: (
K:) so
accord. to some, as in the saying of 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Rawáhah, in which it is [said to be] used as a
syn. adjunct to the preceding word: إِنَّهُمْ عِنْدَ رَبِّهِمْ فِى جِنَان ٍ
يَشْرَبُونَ الرَّحِيقَ وَالسَّلْسَبِيلَا [as though meaning Verily they are with their Lord, in gardens, drinking wine and fermented juice of the grape: but the meaning may be, the choicest of wine, or the sweetest thereof, &c., (see رَحِيقٌ,) and wine easy to swallow, or the like]. (
TA.)
b3: And A certain fountain in Paradise [mentioned in art. سبل,
q. v.]: (
M,
K:) Aboo-Bekr says that it may be a proper name of the fountain, and properly imperfectly
decl. [i. e. without tenween] as being determinate and of the
fem. gender, but made to be with tenween at the end of a verse in the
Kur [lxxvi. 18] in order that it may be conformable with other endings of verses; or it may be an
epithet applied to the fountain, and therefore perfectly
decl.: (
TA:)
Sb mentions it as an
ex. of an
epithet:
IAar says that he had not heard it except in the
Kur-án: (
M,
TA:)
I'Ab says that سَلْسَبِيلًا [in the
Kur] means that slips, or steals, (يَنْسَلُّ,) into the throats, or fauces: [as though the radical letters were only س and ل, which some assert to be the case:]
accord. to Aboo-Jaafar El-
Bákir, it means soft in the part between the حَنْجَرَة [or head of the windpipe] and the حَلْق [or fauces]: the explanation as meaning [سَلْ سَبِيلًا i. e.] سَلْ رَبَّكَ سَبِيلًا إِلَى هٰذِهِ العَيْنِ [Ask of thy Lord a way of access to this fountain] is a mistake, not allowable. (
TA.)
b4: The
pl. is سَلَاسِبُ and سَلَاسِيبُ: and the
pl. of [the
fem.] سَلْسَبِيلَةٌ is سَلْسَبِيلَاتٌ. (
TA.)
b5: [In the present day it is applied to An artificial fountain that throws up water.]