صنتع

Root entry · 3 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes qualities of stubbornness, hardness, and strength, often applied to animals like ostriches, donkeys, and horses. It can also refer to physical attributes like prominent cheeks or a broad forehead, and metaphorically to a strong young man or a cunning person. Some senses are contradictory, indicating a wide semantic range.

Derived headwords

الصنتعnoun

1.
Ostrichclassical
A stubborn or hard-headed ostrich.
2.
Donkeyclassical
A strong-headed donkey, often referring to a wild donkey.
3.
Prominent cheeks/foreheadclassical
A donkey with prominent cheeks and eyebrows, or a broad forehead.
4.
Thin-cheekedclassical
Having thin cheeks, used as an opposite meaning.
5.
Strong youthclassical
A strong and robust young man.
6.
Wolfclassical
According to the people of Yemen, it refers to a wolf.

صنتعother

1.
Hard-headedclassical
Describing something or someone as hard-headed or stubborn.

المصنتعadjective

1.
Crookedclassical
Bent or crooked.

Parallel reading

الصنتع، كقنفذ، كتبه بالحمرة، على أنه مستدرك على الجوهري، وليس كذلك، بل ذكره في صتع فإن النون عنده زائدة

Al-ṣintʿ, like qunfudh, he wrote it in red, considering it an addition to Al-Jawhari, but it is not so; rather, he mentioned it under ṣaʿṭaʿ, as the 'n' is superfluous for him.

فالصواب إذن كتبه بالأسود، وهو: النعام الصلب الرأس

So the correct way is to write it in black, and it is: the hard-headed ostrich.

وأنشد للطرماح، يشبه ناقته بعير الفلاة: (صنتع الحاجبين خرطه البق ... ل بديا قبل استكاك الرياض)

And he cited Al-Tirimmāḥ, likening his she-camel to a desert camel: (Hard-browed, the flies gnawed it... appearing before the plains were firm).

قال ابن بري: الصنتع في البيت من صفة العير لا النعام

Ibn Barrī said: Al-ṣintʿ in the verse describes the male camel, not the ostrich.

وكذا الصنتع: الحمار الشديد الرأس، ويطلق غالبا على الحمار الوحشي

And likewise, al-ṣintʿ: the strong-headed donkey, and it is often applied to the wild donkey.

أو هو الحمار الناتئ الوجنتين والحاجبين، العظيم الجبهة.

Or it is a donkey with prominent cheeks and eyebrows, and a broad forehead.

أو الصنتع: الرقيق الخد، ضد، وبه فسر قول أبي دواد الإيادي يصف فرسا: (فلقد أغتدي يدافع رأيي ... صنتع الخد أيد القصرات)

Or al-ṣintʿ: thin-cheeked, the opposite. And with this, he explained the saying of Abū Dawūd Al-Iyādī describing a horse: (I indeed go forth, my opinion defending... thin-cheeked, with long hindquarters).

كما في العباب، فهو ضد، والذي في اللسان: صنتع الخلق أيد القصرات

As in Al-ʿAbbāb, so it is an opposite. And what is in Al-Lisān: 'ṣantʿ al-khalq ayd al-qaṣarāt' (strong of creation, long hindquarters).

وقال أبو موسى الحامض: (ناهبتها القوم على صنتع ... أجرد كالقدح من الساسم)

And Abū Mūsā Al-Ḥāmiḍ said: (The people vied for it with me over a strong [mount]... lean like a cup from the Sāsim [tree]).

والذي رواه صاحب اللسان أحسن من رواية الصاغاني، وبه ترتفع الضدية، فتأمل.

And what the author of Al-Lisān narrated is better than the narration of Al-Ṣāghānī, and with it the contradiction is resolved, so ponder.

الصنتع: المحرف، كالمصنتع، كلاهما عن ابن عباد.

Al-ṣintʿ: the crooked, like al-maṣntaʿ, both from Ibn ʿAbbād.

ومما يستدرك عليه: الصنتع: الشاب الشديد.

And among what is to be added: Al-ṣintʿ: the strong young man.

وقال كراع: الصنتع عند أهل اليمن: الذئب.

And Kurāʿ said: Al-ṣintʿ among the people of Yemen is: the wolf.