conc▪ The value ‘ropes, hawsers’ for the n. salab is marked as specifically »EgAr« in WehrCowan, but as the ClassAr attestation in Lane iv 1872 (see below, section HIST) shows, it is prob. more widespread.
▪ ³salab is with all likelihood based on the obsol. †⁴salab ‘bark of reeds; tree-fibres’ (i.e., †SLB_12 in root entry ↗SLB), esp. perh. the fibres of (†SLB_13) †⁵salab, a ‘kind of hyacinth’, which in turn is prob. identical with (†SLB_16) †salbīn (al-ḥimār) ‘cotton-thistle’, i.e., the material from which the ropes\hawsers were produced.
▪ Ultimately, all the above are prob. related to ↗salaba ‘to take away, strip, deprive of’, as the fibres from which the ropes\hawsers are twisted are ‘taken out’ of the plant.
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