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صَحْصَحٌ ذ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ صَحْصَاحٌ and ↓ صَحْصَحَانٌ (S, L, K) A place, (S, Msb,) or ground, or land, (L, K,) that is plain, or even, (S, L, Msb, K,) destitute of herbage: pl. of the first صَحَاصِحُ: (L:) and the first signifies a tract of land destitute of herbage, plain, or even, and containing small pebbles: (L:) or a smooth tract of land: (R, MF:) and أَرْضٌ صَحَاصِحُ and ↓ صَحْصَحَانٌ a land destitute of everything, containing no trees, nor any depressed resting-place for water, said by AM to be seldom found except in the rising ground of a valley, or in a mountain near to such rising ground, and not so plain as what is termed صَحْرَآء. (L.) ― -b2- [Hence, app., (see art. تره,)] تُرَّهَاتٌ صَحَاصِحُ, and تُرَّهَاتُ صَحَاصِحَ, [the latter preferred by J, as he says in the S,] (tropical:) What is vain, or false; (S, K, TA;) like ترّهات بَسَابِس: (S:) or [rather] vain, false, untrue things, that have no foundation. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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