صلف

أَصْلَفُ ذ Hard, applied to a place; and so [the fem.] ↓ صَلْفَاآءُ applied to land (أَرْض): (S, O:) or both signify hard ground (M, K) containing stones; (M;) or hard and rugged ground; (As, O;) and the pl. is صَلَافٍ, (M, O, K, * [in the last, erroneously, صَلَافِى, and in the O, correctly, الصَّلَافِى, being made determinate,]) thus pluralized in the same manner as صَحْرَاآء because the quality of a subst. is predominant therein, (M,) and [for the same reason] أَصَالِفُ also; (O, K;) [the former pl. of صلفاآء, and the latter of اصلف:] or ↓ صَلْفَاآء (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K) and ↓ صِلْفَاآء, [each, app., with tenween, the latter because of the measure فِعْلَاآء, and each because receiving the affix ة, for it is added,] and likewise ↓ صَلْفَاآءَةٌ (K) and ↓ صِلْفَاآءَةٌ, (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K,) rugged, hard ground: (K:) or a smooth rock, or a hard, smooth, bare rock, even with the ground. (Ibn-'Abbád, O, K.)