su'luk

plural su'luks · plural sa'alik

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

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

   2006, Robert Irwin, The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

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

   2013, Gabriel Levin, The Dune's Twisted Edge, page 88

   The Arabic that the su’luks learned to speak was the high language of rhetoric and poetry.

   2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 99