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صَلَاهُ

Root: صلى

Form: 1

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صَلَاهُI , Present.T يَصْلِيهِ, Verbal.Noun صَلْىٌ, He roasted, broiled, or fried, it, namely, flesh-meat, &c.; and صَلَاهُ فِى النَّارِ and عَلَى النَّارِ signify the same; and also he burned it. And صَلَاهُ فِى النَّارِ He threw it into the fire to be burned; as also ; and , Verbal.Noun تَصْلِيَةٌ; namely, flesh-meat. And صَلَاهُ النَّارَ and فِى النَّارِ and عَلَى النَّارِ, Verbal.Noun صَلْىٌ and صُلِىٌّ and صِلِىٌّ; and النَّارَ, and النَّارَ; He made him to enter into the fire, and to remain, stay, dwell, or abide, therein: and فُلَانٌ النَّارَ [Such as one was made to enter into the fire, &c.]: [or] you say, صَلَيْتُ الرَّجُلَ نَارًا, meaning I made the man to enter fire and to be burned: and , with ا, when you mean I threw him, or cast him, into the fire, as though intending burning [him]; as also , Verbal.Noun تَصْلِيَةٌ.
2 And صَلَيْتُ فُلَانًا, or لِفُلَانٍ, I laboured in a case, or an affair, desiring to calumniate, or slander, such a one therein, and to cause him to fall into destruction: or صَلَيْتُهُ and صَلَيْتُ لَهُ both signify I calumniated, or slandered, him, and caused him to fall into destruction, in consequence thereof: or, accord. to the K, صَلَى فُلَانًا, of which the Verbal.Noun is صَلْىٌ, signifies he soothed, coaxed, wheedled, or cajoled, such a one: or deceived, deluded, beguiled, circumvented, or outwitted, him: which meanings are not in any of the three lexicons above mentioned: accord. to the A, صَلَيْتُ بِفُلَانٍ [probably a mistranscription for لِفُلَانٍ] means I framed a stratagem, or plot, to cause such a one to fall; there said to be tropical.
3 صَلَى يَدَهُ بِالنَّارِ [said in the TA to be a mistake]: see 2.

def.2 صَلِىَ النَّارَ, and بِالنَّارِ, Present.T يَصْلَى, Verbal.Noun صَلًى, or صُلِىٌّ, (S, K, [صَلْيًا in the CK being a mistranscription for صُلِيًّا,]) or both, and صِلِىٌّ and صِلَآءٌ, and accord. to the K صَلَآءٌ, but this is a mistake for صَلًى, He was, or became, burned [by the fire]: or he endured, or suffered, the heat of the fire; as also تصلّى النَّارَ: or he felt the heat of the fire: and one says تصلّى حَرَّ النَّارِ and [in this last sense or in the sense next preceding]: and صَلِىَ النَّارَ he entered into the fire: (TA in art. بله: see an ex. voce بَلْهَ:) or, accord. to Er-Rághib, صَلِىَ بِالنَّارِ means he was tried (بُلِىَ) by fire, or by the fire; and so بِكَذَا [by such a thing, as though by fire]. [In the Kur, in which are many exs. of it, it is always trans. by itself, without بِ.] And صَلِىَ بِالأَمْرِ, and بِالحَرْبِ; and تصلّى الأَمْرَ, and الحَرْبَ; He endured, or suffered, the heat, and severity, or vehemence, of the affair, or case, and of the war, or fight: Aboo-Zubeyd says, فَقَدْ حَرَّ حَرْبِهِمُ كَمَا المَقْرُورُ مِنْ قَرَسِ [And I have suffered the heat and vehemence of their war, like as he who is affected with cold suffers in consequence of coldest and most abundant hoar-frost].

def.3 [It is said that] صَلِىَ الرَّجُلُ signifies also لَزِمَ [i. e. The man kept to, or clave to, a thing]; and so اصطلى : whence Zj holds صَلَاةٌ [expl. in art. صلو] to be derived; because it is a keeping, or cleaving, to that which God has appointed: and hence also, [it is said,] مَنْ فِى النَّارِ, i. e. يلزم [app. يُلْزَمُ, meaning مَنْ يُلْزَمُ النَّارَ He who is made to keep, or cleave, to the fire; nearly agreeing with صَلَّاهُ النَّارَ as expl. above from the M and K].

def.4 And صَلَيْتُ الظَّهْرَ means I struck, or beat, that part of the back which is called صَلًا: or I hit that part: but this is extr.; for by rule it should be صَلَوْتُهُ, like as Hudheyl say. (M. [See 1 in art. صلو.])
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