صلب

صَلُبَ

To be or become hard, firm, rigid, tough, strong, robust, or hardy.

Used of things and persons; of land, it may describe ground that has become hard after lying unsown for years.

• Lane · entry 26325

صَلُبَ

To be tenacious or avaricious with respect to property.

A construction with عَلَى expressing persistence or tight-fistedness concerning wealth.

• Lane · entry 26325

صَلُبَ

To become strong or potent, of a beverage.

Applied specifically to the strengthening of wine or another beverage.

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صَلَبَ

To cook bones and extract their grease or oily matter; by extension, to roast, broil, or fry meat so that its fat flows.

The object may be bones or flesh, and the extracted grease may be used as seasoning.

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صَلَبَ

To burn or scorch someone.

The sun may be the agent, with the burning understood as causing the person's sweat to flow.

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الصَّلْبُ

A prayer posture in which the hands are placed on the flanks and the arms are separated from the body.

A conventional term referring to the posture's resemblance to a crucified person's extended arms.

• Lane · entry 26325

صَلَبَ

To fit a leather bucket with crosswise wooden braces.

The braces keep the bucket from collapsing.

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صَلَبَتْ عَلَيْهِ حُمَّاهُ

For a fever to persist and become severe.

The construction describes fever continuing upon a person with marked intensity.

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صَلَّبَ

To render something hard, firm, strong, or robust.

Used of persons or things and, in a related construction, of a beverage made strong. This is the hardening use, distinct from the Quranic crucifixion use.

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صَلَّبَ

To become dry, of ripe dates.

The form is used of ripe dates or an individual date reaching dryness.

• Lane · entry 26326

صَلَّبَ

To make or adopt a cross, make the sign of the cross, or figure a cross on a garment or other object.

The usage includes taking a cross for a church, making the cross-sign, and producing a cross-shaped mark or design.

• Lane · entry 26326

صَلَّبَ

To arrange or dispose something crosswise.

Used especially of arranging a woman's scarf or a man's turban in a crosswise manner.

• Lane · entry 26326

أَصْلَبَ

For a she-camel to stretch her neck upward so as to yield her fullest flow of milk to her young.

A specialized Form IV usage describing the camel's posture during nursing.

• Lane · entry 26327

تَصَلَّبَ

To act or exert oneself with forced hardness, strength, courage, severity, or rigour; to strain oneself.

Used of a person who deliberately adopts a strenuous, severe, or unyielding manner.

• Lane · entry 26328

صُلْبٌ

Hard, firm, rigid, stiff, tough, strong, robust, or hardy.

The adjective has physical and general descriptive uses; it is also the basis for several figurative extensions.

• Lane · entry 26330

صُلْبٌ

A rugged, stony, hard, or elevated tract of ground.

Used of difficult terrain, including a hard or extensive stretch of earth and the hard ground of uncultivated land.

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صُلْبٌ

Firm, unyielding, or severe in disposition, treatment, or religious adherence.

Figurative uses include a person resistant in spirit, rigorous toward dependants, or steadfast in religion.

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صُلْبٌ

Forceful or vehement, of running, neighing, or a sound or cry.

A figurative extension of hardness and strength applied to vigorous motion or powerful sound.

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صُلْبٌ

The middle or main body of a page, as distinguished from its margin.

A technical extension from the central solid portion of something; it may also be applied to the corresponding middle of other objects.

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صُلْبٌ

Rank, quality, standing, power, or strength.

A figurative use in expressions about a person's social excellence or power.

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صُلْبٌ

Sexual intercourse.

A conventional use explained by the belief that the man's semen issues from the part called the صُلْب.

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صُلَبٌ

A bird resembling a hawk that does not prey and is notable for the force or loudness of its cry.

A specialized zoological term.

• Lane · entry 26332

صَلِيبٌ

Water that causes cattle to grow fat, strong, and hardy.

A descriptive adjective applied to water by reference to its effect on livestock.

• Lane · entry 26334

صَلِيبٌ

Of pure Arab descent or noble, generous origin.

Applied to a person or lineage; the examples include a pure-bred Arabian and a woman of noble origin.

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صَلِيبٌ

The grease or oily matter of bones; also the watery humour mixed with blood that flows from a corpse.

The plural may refer to people who collect bones, cook them, and extract their grease for seasoning.

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صَلِيبٌ

A cross, especially the cross used by Christians as an object toward which they direct themselves in prayer.

The word also supplies the basis for descriptions of cross-shaped marks and objects.

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صَلِيبٌ

A brand or mark made with a hot iron on a camel.

The mark may be large or small and is described as consisting of two crossing lines; accounts differ about its precise location on the animal.

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صَلِيبٌ

A banner or standard, understood as cross-shaped or bearing a cross.

A specialized poetic use motivated by the cross figured on the standard.

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صَلِيبٌ

An army of ten thousand soldiers.

A rare reported usage; its attestation is secondary and the expression is not otherwise broadly established in the supplied evidence.

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الصَّلِيبُ

A named group of four stars, identified in the supplied lexical discussion with a stellar asterism.

The exact astronomical identification varies in the cited accounts.

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صَلَابَةٌ

Hardness or firmness, especially hard ground.

The noun may describe walking over firm, hard earth.

• Lane · entry 26335

صَلِيبَةُ الرَّجُلِ

A man's descendants or family through those in his father's loins.

A lineage expression for a person's paternal descent, including named ancestral families.

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صُلَّبٌ

A very hard stone or a whetstone used for sharpening.

The term can refer collectively to whetstones or to something like a whetstone.

• Lane · entry 26337

صُلَّبِيٌّ

Sharpened or polished with a whetstone; especially a sharpened spearhead.

The adjective may describe a spearhead or a spear sharpened on the hard stone called صُلَّب.

• Lane · entry 26339

صُلْبُوبٌ

A reed or pipe used in a musical instrument, especially the tube or mouthpiece of a mizmar.

A specialized term for a component of the instrument.

• Lane · entry 26341

صَالِبٌ

A hot, burning, continual, or otherwise severe fever.

The term is contrasted with a fever attended by shivering and may also describe fever accompanied by intense heat or headache.

• Lane · entry 26342

صَوْلَبٌ

Seed scattered over the ground and then covered by ploughing.

The lexical status of this term is disputed; one supplied authority considers it non-Arabic or without an established Arabic root.

• Lane · entry 26343

مُصَلَّبٌ

A garment or piece of cloth figured with a cross or with cross designs.

The adjective describes cloth bearing a cross-shaped figure or one or more crosses.

• Lane · entry 26346

مُصَلَّبٌ

Marked with a cross-shaped brand or figure.

Applied to a camel bearing the صَلِيب brand or to a person bearing a cross-shaped facial mark.

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مُصَلِّبٌ

Becoming or having become dry, of ripe dates.

Used of ripe dates or an individual date that has reached dryness.

• Lane · entry 26347

مُصَلِّبٌ

Vehement and injurious, of rain.

A specialized descriptive use for damagingly forceful rain.

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مَصْلُوبٌ عَلَيْهِ

Affected by a continual and severe fever.

The expression may be explained as being affected by a fever called صَالِبٌ.

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