أَصْهَبُ
Root: صهب
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أَصْهَبُ
, applied to hair, [and to camel's fur or hair,] and to a man, and to a camel, or to a male [of mankind and of camels], fem. صَهْبَآءُ: pl. صُهْبٌ: Of the colour termed
صُهْبَة [expl. above]: as some say, applied to hair, it means having redness intermixed with its whiteness: accord. to As, it is nearly the same as
أَصْبَحُ: applied to a camel, having redness intermixed with his whiteness, the upper part of the fur being red, and the inner parts white: 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
آدَمُ, having a dusky hue in the upper parts and a whiteness in the lower parts: or not intensely white: 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, آدَمُ applied to a camel signifies white; and أَصْهَبُ, white intermixed with redness: [see also صُهَابِىٌّ:] the dim. is
أُصَيْهِبُ .
2 صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ [lit. Persons red, or reddish, &c., in respect of the mustaches, &c.,] is a designation of
3 الأَصْهَبُ is an appellation of The lion: because of his colour.
4 And [for the same reason] أَصْهَبُ is a designation of The male ostrich.
5 Hence also الصَّهْبَآءُ signifies Wine: or wine expressed from white grapes: used in this sense as a proper name: but also used without the article ال; being originally an epithet.
6 يَوْمٌ أَصْهَبُ
2 صُهْبُ السِّبَالِ [lit. Persons red, or reddish, &c., in respect of the mustaches, &c.,] is a designation of
3 الأَصْهَبُ is an appellation of The lion: because of his colour.
4 And [for the same reason] أَصْهَبُ is a designation of The male ostrich.
5 Hence also الصَّهْبَآءُ signifies Wine: or wine expressed from white grapes: used in this sense as a proper name: but also used without the article ال; being originally an epithet.
6 يَوْمٌ أَصْهَبُ
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