صهب

أَصْهَبُ ذ , applied to hair, (A, TA,) [and to camel's fur or hair,] and to a man, (S,) and to a camel, (A,) or to a male [of mankind and of camels], (Mgh, Msb,) fem. صَهْبَاآءُ: (A, Mgh, Msb:) pl. صُهْبٌ: (S, A, Msb, K:) Of the colour termed صُهْبَة [expl. above]: (S, A, Mgh, Msb:) as some say, (TA,) applied to hair, it means having redness intermixed with its whiteness: (K, TA:) accord. to As, it is nearly the same as أَصْبَحُ: (TA:) applied to a camel, having redness intermixed with his whiteness, the upper part of the fur being red, and the inner parts white: (S:) or not having the inner parts [ of the fur ] intensely white, the flanks and sides having somewhat of whiteness; the اصهب being less white than what is termed اآدَمُ, having a dusky hue in the upper parts and a whiteness in the lower parts: (T, TA:) or not intensely white: (K:) or, accord. to IAar, white: and he says that the صُهْب and أُدْم were called by the Arabs “ the Kureysh of camels, ” i. e. the most noble, and the best, as Kureysh were considered by them the best of them; also, that صُهْبَة was said to be the most famous and the best of colours, and that a she-camel of that colour was said to be the most swift of all: [see also أَحْمَرُ as applied to a camel:] but accord. to As, اآدَمُ applied to a camel signifies white; and أَصْهَبُ, white intermixed with redness: (TA:) [see also صُهَابِىٌّ:] the dim. is ↓ أُصَيْهِبُ. (Msb.) ― -b2- صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ [lit. Persons red, or reddish, &c., in respect of the mustaches, &c.,] is a designation of (tropical:) enemies; and is applied to them even if not really صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ: (As, S, A, * L, K:) originally applied to the Greeks (الرُّوم), because redness of the hair was [common] among them, and they were enemies of the Arabs: (S, L, TA:) applied to others, it designates them as being as great enemies as the Greeks. (TA.) ― -b3- الأَصْهَبُ is an appellation of The lion: (K:) because of his colour. (TA.) ― -b4- And [for the same reason] أَصْهَبُ is a designation of The male ostrich. (L, TA.) ― -b5- Hence also (S, TA) الصَّهْبَاآءُ signifies Wine: (S, K:) or wine expressed from white grapes: (K:) used in this sense as a proper name: (AHn, K:) but also used without the article ال; being originally an epithet. (TA.) ― -b6- يَوْمٌ أَصْهَبُ (tropical:) A cold day: (K:) or a day intensely cold. (A, TA.)