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صَرِيحٌ ذ Anything pure, sheer, free from admixture, unmingled, unmixed, genuine, or clear; (S, A, Msb, K, TA;) as also ↓ صَرَحٌ , (S, K,) which is by some restricted by the [additional] epithet white, (TA,) and ↓ صُرَاحٌ , (L, K,) and ↓ صِرَاحٌ , which is [said to be] more chaste [though much less usual] than صُرَاحٌ, (L,) and ↓ صَرَاحٌ , (K,) and ↓ صُمَارِحٌ , (S, K,) in which last the م is augmentative, or, as is related on the authority of AA, it is صُمَادِحٌ, with د, but [J says] I do not think this to have been retained in the memory [as transmitted from the Arabs of classical times]. (S.) You say لَبَنٌ صَرِيحٌ Milk of which the froth has gone, (S, A, L,) or free from froth, (T, L,) and clear: (T, A, L:) or just drawn. (TA in art. زهر.) And بَوْلٌ صَرِيحٌ Urine free from froth. (T, L.) And ↓ خَمْرٌ صُرَاحٌ , (L,) and ↓ صُرَاحِيَةٌ , (L, K,) without teshdeed, (K,) Pure wine, (L, K,) without admixture. (TA.) And ↓ كَأْسٌ صُرَاحٌ A cup of wine without admixture. (S, A, Msb, K.) And جَآءَ بَنُو تَمِيمٍ صَرِيحَةً The sons of Temeem came unmixed with any others. (S.) And رَجُلٌ صَرِيحٌ, (T, S, L, K, *) and عَرَبِىٌّ صَرِيحٌ, (A, Msb,) A man, (T, S, L,) and an Arab, (A, Msb,) of pure, or unmixed, race or genealogy; pl. صُرَحَآءُ: (T, S, A, L, Msb, K:) and فَرَسٌ صَرِيحٌ a horse of pure race; (T, TA;) pl. صَرَائِحُ, (T, K, TA,) in this case as distinguished from the former. (T, TA.) And نَسَبٌ صَرِيحٌ Pure, or unmixed, race or genealogy. (A.) And كَلِمَةٌ ↓ صُرَاحٌ and ↓ صُرَاحِيَةٌ [A word, an expression, or a sentence,] that is pure, genuine, or clear. (K.) And ↓ كَذِبٌ صُرَاحٌ and ↓ صِرَاحٌ , the latter with kesr, and ↓ صُرَاحِيَةٌ and ↓ صُرَاحِىٌّ (TA) and ↓ صُرْحَانٌ with damm, (Lh, TA,) (assumed tropical:) A pure, sheer, or unmixed, lie, (Lh, TA,) manifest, and known to men. (TA.) And قَوْلٌ صَرِيحٌ (assumed tropical:) A saying [that is explicit, plain, or clear,] not requiring anything to be conceived in the mind, nor any interpretation. (Msb.) And ↓ شَرٌّ صُرَاحٌ (tropical:) [Pure unmixed, evil, or mischief]. (A, TA.) And صَرِيحُ النُّصْحِ (assumed tropical:) Pure, or sincere, in admonition, or counsel. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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