صَالِبٌ

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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.

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