صبغ

أَصْبَغُ ذ (assumed tropical:) A horse white in the forelock, (AO, S, Mgh, O, K,) all of it: (AO, Mgh: [see also أَسْعَفُ:]) or white in the extremities of his tail: (S, O:) or white in the extremities of the ear: (K:) when the whiteness is in his tail, he is termed أَشْعَل: or, accord. to AO, it signifies also white in the whole of the tail, including its extremities. (TA.) And (tropical:) A bird white in the tail: (S, O, K, TA:) or, accord. to the book entitled “ Ghareeb el-Hamám ” by El-Hasan Ibn-' Abd-Allah ElIsbahánee El-Kátib, white in the whole of the head; but used in the former sense by the keepers of pigeons. (TA.) And [the fem.] صَبْغَاآءُ (assumed tropical:) A sheep or goat (شَاة, S, O, K) or a ewe (AZ, TA) white in the extremity of its tail, (AZ, S, O, K, TA,) the rest of it (i. e. of the animal) being black. (TA.) ― -b2- Also (assumed tropical:) A species of weak birds. (TA.) ― -b3- Also, (applied to a man, O,) (tropical:) One who voids his excrement (O, K, TA) in his clothes (K, TA) when he is beaten (O, K, TA) and when he is frightened: mentioned by Z. (TA.) ― -b4- And صَبْغَاآءُ, (assumed tropical:) A certain tree, or plant, (شَجَرَة,) like the ثُمَام [which is applied to several species of panic grass], having a white fruit, growing in sands: (K:) [but this seems to have been taken from three different explanations, here following:] accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, a certain tree, or plant, that grows in the sands, resembling the ضَعَة [which is applied to a species of the ثُمَام], which is one of the abodes of the gazelles in the hot season, lurking-places being excavated by them at its roots: accord. to another, of the Arabs of the desert, it is like the ثُمَام, but the ضَعَة is larger in the leaves, and of a brighter green: accord. to Aboo-Nasr, a certain tree, or plant, having a white fruit. (O.) And, (O, K,) as some say, (O,) (assumed tropical:) A bunch of herbage, of which, when it comes up, the upper portions are green on the side next the sun, and white on the side next the shade. (O, K.) -A2- Also (i. e. أَصْبَغ) The greatest of torrents. (Ibn-' Abbád, O, K.) [In this sense, though used as a subst., it seems to be, as in other senses, imperfectly decl., being originally an epithet: if not originally an epithet, it might, accord. to some authorities, be perfectly decl.]