صَبْحَانُ
Root: صبح
Full Definition
صَبْحَانُ
A man who has drunk a morningdraught, or what is termed a
صَبُوح; or who has done so, and satisfied his thirst thereby: [in the S and K it is implied that it is syn. with مُصْطَبِحٌ, q. v.:] fem. صَبْحَى. Hence the prov., أَكْذَبُ مِنَ
الأَخِيذِ الصَّبْحَانِ More lying than the captive who had satisfied his thirst with a morning-draught: the person thus alluded to was a man who was among a people that gave him a morning-draught, after which he arose and quitted them, and was taken by another people, who said to him, “ Guide us to the place where thou wast; ” to which he replied, “ I have passed the night in the bare desert: ” but presently he sat down to make water, so they knew that he had passed the night with a people near by; and by his means they found their way to them, and exterminated them: or the prov. is أَكْذَبُ مِنَ
الأَخِدِ الصَّبْحَانِ
More lying than the young unweaned camel that has satisfied its thirst with drinking [its mother's milk in the morning]; which [seems to be thirsty but] will not drink of its mother's milk when one desires it to do so: or, accord. to Fr, than the young unweaned camel that is affected with indigestion, or heaviness of the stomach, from drinking much milk, and therefore craves for milk again.
2 Also the fem., صَبْحَى, A she-camel that has been milked [app. in the morning]. (Meyd, in his Proverbs, under the letter ص; and TA.)
def.2 See also صَبِيحٌ.
2 Also the fem., صَبْحَى, A she-camel that has been milked [app. in the morning]. (Meyd, in his Proverbs, under the letter ص; and TA.)
def.2 See also صَبِيحٌ.
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