صلب

صَالِبٌ ذ A hot fever; contr. of نَافِضٌ [which means “ attended with shivering, or trembling ”]: (S:) or a fever not such as is termed نَافِضٌ: (M:) or a fever attended with vehement heat, and not attended with cold: (TA:) or a fever attended with tremour (A, K, TA) and quivering of the skin: (TA:) or a continual fever: (Msb:) or a fever attended with صُدَاع [or headache ]: (Ham p. 345:) it is said by Ibn-Buzurj to be from the صُدَاع: (L, TA:) it is masc. and fem.: one says, أَخَذَتْهُ الحُمَّى بِصَالِبٍ [which may be rendered Fever with burning heat, &c., seized him ] and أَخَذَتْهُ حُمَّى صَالِبٌ [virtually meaning the same]; the former of which is the more chaste: and one seldom or never makes one of the two nouns to govern the other in the gen. case: (M, TA:) or, accord. to Fr, they said حُمَّى صَالِبٌ and حُمَّى صَالِبٍ and صَالِبُ حُمَّى. (MF, TA.) صَالِبِى أَشَدُّ مِنْ نَافِضِكَ [ My burning fever, or continual fever, &c., is more severe than thy fever attended with shivering ] is a prov., (Meyd, TA,) applied to two things, or events, of which one is more severe than the other. (Meyd.) -A2- See also صُلْبٌ, in the middle of the paragraph.