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الصهب

Root entry · 16 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes shades of reddish-brown or yellowish-red, particularly in hair, but extends to describe things that are this color or possess qualities associated with it, such as a type of horse, a lion, or even wine. It also encompasses concepts of intensity, fullness, and harshness, like a hot day or a strong person.

Derived headwords

الصَّهَبnoun
  1. 1.
    reddish-brown/yellowish-rednessboth

    A reddish or yellowish-red color, especially in hair.

الصَّهَبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    reddish-brown/yellowish-rednessboth

    A reddish or yellowish-red color, especially in hair.

الصُّهُوبَةnoun
  1. 1.
    reddish-brown/yellowish-rednessboth

    A reddish or yellowish-red color, especially in hair.

أَصْهَبadjective
  1. 1.
    off-whiteboth

    Describing a camel that is not intensely white, but has a slight reddish or yellowish hue.

  2. 2.
    reddish-brown/yellowish-redboth

    Describing hair that has a mixture of white and reddish-brown or yellowish-red.

  3. 3.
    fierceclassical

    Describing enemies who have reddish beards, even if they do not actually possess them.

  4. 4.
    coldclassical

    Describing a cold day.

الصَّهَابِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    full/abundantclassical

    Describing abundant wealth or livestock that has not had its zakat paid.

  2. 2.
    strong/intenseclassical

    Describing something strong or intense, such as a severe death.

  3. 3.
    man without a treasuryclassical

    A man who does not have a treasury or accumulated wealth.

الصَّهَابِيّname
  1. 1.
    lionboth

    A name for a lion.

  2. 2.
    place nameclassical

    A place name in Bahrain.

الأَصْهَبِيَّاتnoun
  1. 1.
    lionsclassical

    The plural of 'al-as'hab' (lion), used by the poet Dhu al-Rummah.

الصَّهْبَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    wineboth

    A name for wine, or specifically wine made from white grapes.

  2. 2.
    place nameclassical

    A place name near Khaybar.

الصَّيْهَبnoun
  1. 1.
    intense heatclassical

    Extreme heat.

  2. 2.
    hot dayclassical

    A very hot day.

  3. 3.
    hard rockclassical

    A solid rock.

  4. 4.
    level groundclassical

    Flat, level ground.

  5. 5.
    stonesclassical

    Stones.

  6. 6.
    hot placeclassical

    Any place that becomes so hot the sun can cook meat on it.

الصَّيْهَبadjective
  1. 1.
    tallclassical

    Describing a tall man.

الصَّيْهَبِيّname
  1. 1.
    stallionclassical

    A name for a stallion to which a camel is attributed.

المِصْهَبadjective
  1. 1.
    weakly roastedclassical

    Describing meat that is weakly roasted or undercooked.

  2. 2.
    mixed wild animalclassical

    Describing a wild animal whose color is mixed.

أَصْهَبَverb
  1. 1.
    to become reddish-brownboth

    To become reddish-brown or yellowish-red, referring to hair or other things.

أَصْهَبَ الفَحْلother
  1. 1.
    foal with reddish colorclassical

    When a stallion has offspring with a reddish-brown or yellowish-red color.

أَصْهَب صَاهِبother
  1. 1.
    call to milk sheepclassical

    A call used to encourage sheep to be milked.

عَيْنُ الأَصْهَبname
  1. 1.
    place nameclassical

    A place name located between Basra and Bahrain.

Parallel reading

الصهب، محركة: حمرة أو شقرة في الشعر، كالصهبة، بالضم، والصهوبة.
Al-ṣahab, with harakah: redness or yellowness in hair, like al-ṣahabah, with dammah, and al-ṣuhūbah.
والأصهب: بعير ليس بشديد البياض، كالصهابي، والأسد، وعين بالبحرين، وجمعه ذو الرمة على الأصهبيات، واليوم البارد، وشعر يخالط بياضه حمرة، والأعداء صهب السبال، وإن لم يكونوا كذلك.
And al-aṣhab: a camel that is not intensely white, like al-ṣahābī, and the lion, and a place in Bahrain, whose pluralization by Dhu al-Rummah is al-aṣhabiyyāt, and the cold day, and hair whose whiteness is mixed with redness, and enemies with reddish beards, even if they are not so.
والصهباء: الخمر، أو المعصورة من عنب أبيض، اسم لها كالعلم، وع قرب خيبر.
And al-ṣahbā': wine, or pressed from white grapes, a proper name for it, and a place near Khaybar.
والصهابي، كغرابي: الوافر الذي لم ينقص، والرجل لا ديوان له، والنعم لم تؤخذ صدقته، والشديد، ومنه: موت صهابي.
And al-ṣahābī, like ghurābī: the abundant that is not lacking, and the man who has no treasury, and livestock whose zakat has not been taken, and the intense, and from it: an intense death.
والصيهب، كصيقل: شدة الحر، واليوم الحار، والرجل الطويل، والصخرة الصلبة، والموضع الشديد، والأرض المستوية، والحجارة، وكل موضع تحمى عليه الشمس حتى ينشوي اللحم عليه.
And al-ṣayhab, like ṣayqal: intense heat, and the hot day, and the tall man, and the hard rock, and the intense place, and the level ground, and stones, and every place that the sun heats so that meat is roasted on it.
وكغراب: ع، أو فحل ينسب إليه الجمل الصهابي.
And like ghurāb: a place name, or a stallion to which the camel al-ṣahābī is attributed.
والمصهب، كمعظم: ضعيف الشواء، والوحش المختلط، وأصهب الفحل: ولد له الصهب.
And al-miṣhab, like muʻẓam: weakly roasted, and the mixed wild animal, and when the stallion has offspring: it has offspring with the ṣahab color.
وأصهب صاهب: دعاء للضأن إلى الحلب.
And aṣhab ṣāhib: a call for sheep to be milked.
وعين الأصهب: بين البصرة والبحرين.
And ʻAyn al-Aṣhab: between Basra and Bahrain.