صَالِبٌ
Root: صلب
Full Definition
صَالِبٌ
A hot fever; contr. of
نَافِضٌ [which means “ attended with shivering, or trembling ”]: or a fever not such as is termed
نَافِضٌ: or a fever attended with vehement heat, and not attended with cold: or a fever attended with tremour and quivering of the skin: or a continual fever: or a fever attended with
صُدَاع [or headache]: it is said by Ibn-Buzurj to be from the صُدَاع: it is masc. and fem.: one says, أَخَذَتْهُ الحُمَّى بِصَالِبٍ [which may be rendered Fever with burning heat, &c., seized him] and أَخَذَتْهُ حُمَّى صَالِبٌ [virtually meaning the same]; the former of which is the more chaste: and one seldom or never makes one of the two nouns to govern the other in the gen. case: or, accord. to Fr, they said حُمَّى صَالِبٌ and حُمَّى
صَالِبٍ and صَالِبُ حُمَّى. صَالِبِى أَشَدُّ
مِنْ نَافِضِكَ [My burning fever, or continual fever, &c., is more severe than thy fever attended with shivering] is a prov., applied to two things, or events, of which one is more severe than the other.
def.2 See also صُلْبٌ, in the middle of the paragraph.
def.2 See also صُلْبٌ, in the middle of the paragraph.
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