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صَلْصَالٌ ذ A noisy ass; as also ↓ صُلْصُلٌ and ↓ صُلَاصِلٌ and ↓ مُصَلْصِلٌ : (M, K:) an ass strong in voice [or bray], vehement therein. (Aboo-Ahmad El-'Askeree, TA.) And A horse sharp and slender [or shrill] in voice [or neigh]. (M, TA.) And A wild ass sharp in voice; as also ↓ صَالٌّ : so says Aboo-Ahmad El-Askeree: and thus is expl. the saying in a trad., أَتُحِبُّونَ أَنْ ↓ تَكُونُوا مِثْلَ الحَمِيرِ الصَّالَّةِ , app. meaning [Would ye love to be like the asses] sound in bodies, vehement in voices, by reason of their strength and their briskness? (TA.) ― -b2- Also Clay not made into pottery; (M, K;) so called because of its making a sound (لِتَصَلْصُلِهِ: (M:) or clay mixed with sand; (S, O, K;) which, when it becomes dry, makes a sound; and which, when baked, is فَخَّار: (S, O:) or dry clay, that makes a sound by reason of its dryness: (Z, O, TA:) thus in the Kur lv. 13 [and xv. 26 and 28 and 33]: or, accord. to Mujáhid, i. q. حَمَأٌ مَسْنُونٌ [which means black mud altered for the worse in odour]. (TA.) -A2- And صَلْصَالَةٌ A land in which is no one. (O, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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