صَيْهَبٌ
Root: صهب
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صَيْهَبٌ
A hard place: pl. صَيَاهِبُ. Level ground: so some say: pl. as above: or ضَيْهَبٌ has this meaning. Any place, or any high, or rugged, or high and rugged, ground, or place of a mountain, upon which the sun is vehemently hot so that flesh-meat is broiled upon it: Lth assigns this meaning to ضَيْهَبٌ; but AM says that the right word is صَيْهَبٌ. (TA in art. ضهب.) And A hard rock: and stones: [or] by stones are here meant hard rocks: [but] this is a meaning of the pl. صَيَاهِبُ.
2 A hard, or strong, camel; fem. with ة: likened to the stones so called.
3
4 And A tall man.
5 And A hot day: or a day intensely hot: and so صَيْهَدٌ.
6 And Intenseness of heat: so on the authority of IAar alone; others explaining it as an epithet.
2 A hard, or strong, camel; fem. with ة: likened to the stones so called.
3
4 And A tall man.
5 And A hot day: or a day intensely hot: and so صَيْهَدٌ.
6 And Intenseness of heat: so on the authority of IAar alone; others explaining it as an epithet.
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