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صلف

Root entry · 12 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns concepts of hardness, scarcity, and lack of favor or affection. It extends to describe unyielding land, meager sustenance, and a person or thing that is disliked or unsuccessful.

Derived headwords

الصَّلْفَاءnoun
  1. 1.
    Hard groundboth

    Refers to land that is hard and unyielding.

أَصْلَفَadjective
  1. 1.
    Hard (ground)both

    Describing land as hard and unyielding.

الصَّلِيفnoun
  1. 1.
    Side of the neckclassical

    The عرض العنق, referring to the side of the neck.

  2. 2.
    Support for a saddleclassical

    Two wooden pieces that cross the saddle-girth to support the saddlebags.

الصَّلَفnoun
  1. 1.
    Scarcity of foodboth

    A state of having little food or sustenance.

  2. 2.
    Lack of favorboth

    Not being favored or liked, especially by a spouse.

  3. 3.
    Arroganceclassical

    Exceeding the bounds of propriety and claiming more than one deserves, out of arrogance.

صَلِفadjective
  1. 1.
    exceeding the bounds of elegance and claiming more than that out of arroganceboth

    exceeding the bounds of elegance and claiming more than that out of arrogance

  2. 2.
    arrogantboth

    arrogant

تَصْلُفُverb
  1. 1.
    he exceeded his boundsboth

    he exceeded his bounds

صَلَفًاnoun
  1. 1.
    Lack of favorboth

    The state of not being favored or liked, particularly by a spouse.

  2. 2.
    Arroganceclassical

    The act of exceeding one's station or claiming undue importance out of pride.

صَلِيفَةnoun
  1. 1.
    Side of the neckclassical

    The side of the neck.

صَلَائِفnoun
  1. 1.
    Women lacking favorboth

    Plural of a woman who is disliked by her husband.

أَصْلِفِverb
  1. 1.
    May God make you dislikedclassical

    A prayer or curse wishing someone to be disliked by their spouse.

يَصْلُفُverb
  1. 1.
    To lack favorboth

    To not be favored by people or to not gain their affection.

تَصَلَّفَverb
  1. 1.
    he exceeded his boundsboth

    he exceeded his bounds

Parallel reading

الأرض الصلبة، والمكان أصلف.
Hard ground, and a place that is hard.
والصليف: عرض العنق، وهما صليفان من الجانبين.
And the salif: the side of the neck, and they are two salifs from the sides.
والصليفان أيضا: عودان يعترضان الغبيط تشد بهما المحامل
And the salifan also: two sticks that cross the saddle-girth by which the saddlebags are secured
والصلف: قلة نزل الطعام.
And al-salaf: scarcity of food.
يقال: إناء صلف، إذا كان قليل الاخذ للماء.
It is said: a salif pot, if it holds little water.
وسحاب صلف: قليل الماء كثير الرعد.
And salif clouds: little water, much thunder.
" رب صلف تحت الراعدة ".
"Perhaps a meager one beneath the thunderer."
يضرب للرجل يتوعد ثم لا يقوم به.
It is said of a man who threatens then does not follow through.
وصلفت المرأة تصلف صلفا، إذا لم تحظ عند زوجها وأبغضها.
And a woman تصلف تصلف salafan, if she does not gain favor with her husband and he dislikes her.
يقال: امرأة صلفة، من نسوة صلائف.
It is said: a salifah woman, from among salifah women.
لها روضة في القلب لم ترع مثلها فروك ولا المستعبرات الصلائف
She has a meadow in the heart that neither the Furook nor the salifah women have grazed like.
يقال للمرأة: أصلف الله رفغك، أي بغضك إلى زوجك
It is said to a woman: May God make you disliked, meaning may He make you hated by your husband.
" من يبغ في الدين يصلف "، أي لا يحظى عند الناس ولا يرزق منهم المحبة.
"Whoever is hated in religion, يصلف", meaning he does not gain favor with people nor is he granted their love.
وزعم الخليل أن الصلف مجاوزة قدر الظرف والادعاء فوق ذلك تكبرا.
And Al-Khalil claimed that al-salaf is exceeding the measure of propriety and claiming more than that out of arrogance.
فهو رجل صلف، وقد تصلف.
So he is a salif man, and he has تصلف.