Meaning of su'luk | Babel Free

Definitions

A type of pre-Islamic Arabic vagabond, living outside settled society, and often associated with writing poetry.

Examples

“Al-Shanfara al-Azdi was one of the most notorious of the sa'alik.”

“His night journey, “wolf scene,” and description of bedding another man's wife could have come straight out of a su‘luk poem.”

“The Arabic that the su’luk'''s learned to speak was the high language of rhetoric and poetry.”

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