صُلْبٌ
Root: صلب
Full Definition
2 [Hence,] صُلْبٌ and صَلَبٌ , or مَكَانٌ صُلْبٌ and صَلَبٌ , A rugged, stony place: or صُلْبٌ signifies a rugged, extending place, of the earth or ground; and صَلَبٌ , a hard part of the earth or ground: or this last, a tract of rugged depressed land stretching along between two hills: or the acclivities of hills; and its pl. is أَصْلَابٌ: or أَصْلَابٌ signifies hard, extending, [tracts of] ground: or hard and elevated [tracts of] ground: and مَكَانٌ صُلْبٌ, a rugged, hard place: the pl. (of صُلْبٌ, S) is صِلَبَةٌ. One says of land that has not been sown for a long time, إِنَّهَا مُنْذُ أَعْوَامٍ
3 [Hence also,] هُوَ صُلْبُ المَعَاجِمِ
[Hard, &c., having the veins of his limbs appearing: thou wilt see him to have a finger pointing at them, i. e. his camels, because of their good condition, when the people are afflicted with drought]. (M, TA. But in the S, in art. صبع, we find ضَعِيف in this verse instead of صَلِيب.)العَصَا بَادِى العُرُوقِ تَرَى لَهُ عَلَيْهَا إِذَا مَا أَجْدَبَ النَّاسُ إِصْبَعَا
4 And [in like manner] هُوَ صُلْبٌ فِى دِينِهِ and صُلَّبٌ
5 And جَرْىٌ صُلْبٌ or صَلِيبٌ
6 And صَهِيلٌ صُلْبٌ
def.2 Also, and صُلُبٌ and صَلَبٌ and صَالِبٌ , which last is rarely used, and is said to occur only in one instance, in poetry, but another instance of it in poetry is cited, The back-bone; i. e. the bone extending from the كَاهِل [or base of the neck] to the عَجْب [or rump bone]; the bone upon which the neck is set, extending to the root of the tail [in a beast], and in a man to the عُصْعُص [or os coccygis]: or a portion of the back: and any portion of the back containing vertebræ: [and particularly the lumbar portion; the lions:] and the back [absolutely]; as is said in an explanation of a verse of 'Adee Ibn-Zeyd cited in what follows: pl. [of mult.] صِلَبَةٌ and [of pauc.] أَصْلُبٌ and أَصْلَابٌ, each of which two is used in poetry in a sing. sense, as though every part of the صُلْب were regarded as a صُلْب in itself, and صِلْبَةٌ, of which last ISd says, [but this I do not find in the M,] I do not think it to be of established authority, unless it be a contraction of صِلَبَةٌ. Lh mentions, as a phrase of the Arabs, هٰؤُلَآءِ أَبْنَآءُ صِلَبَتِهِمْ [These are the sons of their loins: because the sperma of the man is held to proceed from the صُلْب of the man, as is said in the Ksh &c. in lxxxvi. 7].
2 [Hence صُلْبٌ is used as signifying The middle of a page, as distinguished from the هَامِش : and in like manner, of other things.]
3 [Hence, likewise,] صُلْبٌ signifies also حَسَبٌ [meaning
إِجْلَ أَنَّ ٱللّٰهَ قَدْ فَضَّلَكُمْ فَوْقَ مَا أَحْكِى بِصُلْبٍ وَإِزَارْ
meaning above such as binds the back with an izár. And it is said in a trad., إِنَّ المُغَالِبَ صُلْبَ ٱللّٰهِ مَغْلُوبٌ, meaningفَوْقَ مَنْ أَحْكَأَ صُلْبًا بِإِزَارْ
4 Also Coitus (جِمَاع): because the sperma [of the man] issues from the part so called.
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