صك

صَكَّةٌ ذ The vehemence of the midday-heat in summer: (K:) or the most vehement heat of midday in summer: (S:) and it is prefixed to عُمَىّ: (K:) one says, لَقِيُتُه صَكَّةَ عُمَىٍّ, (S, O,) a prov., meaning I met him in the most vehement heat of midday in summer when the heat almost blinded by its vehemence: (Lh, O, TA:) for عُمَىّ is said to be an abbreviated dim. of أَعْمَى: (S, O, TA:) and by it is said to be meant the gazelle, because he is dazzled and confounded in the midday-heats of summer, and knocks against the thing that is before him: some say, صَكَّةَ حُمَىٍّ, from حَمِيَتِ الشَّمْسُ: and some assert that عُمَىّ means the heat, itself: (O, TA:) or it is the name of a certain man [as will be found expl. in art. عمى, with variations of this saying]. (S, O, K, TA.)