حُلْقُوم

HuloquwmN Hlqwm The windpipe, or passage of the breath; (T, Mgh, TA;) by the cutting, or severing, of which, and of the mariYo' [or œsophagus] and wadajaAni [or two external jugular veins], the lawful slaughtering of an animal is completed: (T, TA:) accord. to the S and K, [and to the Msb, in art. Hlq , though it is there correctly and fully explained as meaning the windpipe, ] i. q. HaloqN : but in the M it is explained [agreeably with general usage] as the passage of the breath, and of coughing, from the jawof [or chest ]; consisting of a series of successively-superimposed cartilages ( A^aTobaAqu garaADiyfa ), before which, in the exterior of the throat, is nothing but skin; having its lower extremity in the lungs, and its upper extremity at the root of the tongue: from it pass forth the breath and the wind and the saliva and the voice: [see also another explanation voce HaloqN , from Zj in his “ Khalk el-Insán, ” and the Msb:] pl. HalaAqimu and HalaAqiymu . (TA.) Accord. to some, the m is augmentative: accord. to others, radical. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] they say, nazalonaA mivola Huloquwmi Aln~aEaAmapi , meaning (assumed tropical:) We alighted in a strait, or confined, place. (TA.) And HalaAqiymu AlbilaAdi means (assumed tropical:) The strait, or confined, parts of the country, or of countries: (Mgh:) or the lateral, and extreme, parts thereof. (TA.)