صبح

أَصْبَحُ ذ Of a black colour inclining to redness: (K:) or having redness intermixed in his black hair: (Sh, TA:) or whose hair, or beard, has a red hue overspreading it: (Aboo-Nasr, Sh, TA:) or having hair intensely red: (TA:) it is nearly the same as أَصْهَبُ: (Lth, S:) and is an epithet applied to a man and to a lion: (S:) and to hair as meaning having whiteness naturally intermixed in it with redness; (K, TA;) of whatever kind it be: (TA:) fem. صَبْحَاآءُ: (K:) and pl. صُبْحٌ: (TA:) and hence [accord. to some] ↓ الصُّبْحُ meaning “ the dawn; ” for, as Az says, the colour of the true dawn inclines a little to redness. (TA.) [Hence, because of his colour,] الأَصْبَحُ signifies The lion. (K.) In the phrase أُسُودٌ صُبْحٌ, the epithet is added as a corroborative. (Z, TA.) ― -b2- And the fem., صَبْحَاآءُ signifies A female conspicuous, or clear, or fair, in the جَبِين [or side of the forehead ]. (TA.)