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صَلْدٌ ذ Hard and smooth; (S, M, A, K;) as also ↓ صِلْدٌ (K) and ↓ صَلُودٌ (M) and ↓ صَلِيدٌ (A) and ↓ أَصْلَدُ ; (M;) applied to a stone; (S, M, A;) and so the first applied to land or ground (أَرْض); (S;) and to a solid hoof, as also ↓ صِلْدِمٌ and ↓ صُلَادِمٌ , which last is of the measure فُعَالِمٌ accord. to Kh, but فُعَالِلٌ accord. to others; (M;) and to a side of the forehead, (S, M,) or thus applied meaning smooth and tough; (L;) and to a head, as also ↓ صُلَادِمٌ , (M,) or thus applied meaning (tropical:) upon which no hair grows: (A:) and ↓ صَلَوْدَدٌ , (M, K,) which is of an extr. form, (M,) has the first of the significations above, (K,) or signifies [simply] hard: (M:) the pl. of صَلْدٌ (M, L) and of ↓ صَلُودٌ (M) is أَصْلَادٌ. (M, L.) ― -b2- Also applied to a place, (مَكَانٌ, M,) and صَلْدَةٌ applied to land, (أَرْضٌ, A,) (tropical:) That produces no plants, or herbage. (M, A.) And أَصْلَادُ الجَبِينِ (tropical:) The part of the side of the forehead upon which is no hair: likened to smooth stone. (A Heyth.) ― -b3- [Hence,] حَجَرٌ صَلْدٌ and ↓ صَلُودٌ (tropical:) A stone that will not emit fire: (L, TA:) and ↓ زَنْدٌ صَلُودٌ (M, A) and ↓ صَالِدٌ and ↓ صَلَّادٌ and ↓ مِصْلَادٌ (M) [and ↓ مُصْلِدٌ ] (tropical:) [A piece of stick, or wood, for producing fire] that gives a sound, (M,) not emitting fire: (M, A:) and ↓ عُودٌ صَلَّادٌ (tropical:) Wood, or a stick, from which fire cannot be produced. (T, L, K. *) ― -b4- And فَرَسٌ صَلْدٌ (K) and ↓ صَلُودٌ (S, M, A, K) (tropical:) A horse that does not sweat: (S, A, K:) such a horse is discommended: (K:) or slow to sweat: or having little seminal fluid: and slow in impregnating. (M.) ― -b5- And رَجُلٌ صَلْدٌ (M) and ↓ صَلُودٌ (M, A) and ↓ أَصْلَدُ (S, M, A, K) (tropical:) A niggardly, tenacious, penurious, or avaricious, man: (S, M, K:) or a man very niggardly &c. (A.) ― -b6- And نَاقَةٌ صَلْدَةٌ (tropical:) A hardy, strong, enduring she-camel. (K.) And خَيْلٌ صِلَادٌ (tropical:) Hard, hardy, or strong, horses. (A.) [And ↓ صِلْدَامٌ , also, signifies Robust, or strong. (Freytag, from Jereer.)]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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