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5 تصوّح البَقْلُ ذ The herbs, or leguminous plants, became dried up; as also ↓ صَوَّحَ : (IB, TA:) or became completely dried up; or became blighted and dried up; and ↓ صَوَّحَ signifies the same: (L:) or became dried up in the hot season, not by reason of a blight or the like: (T, TA:) or became dried up in the upper part, (AA, S, K,) yet retaining moisture: (AA, S:) or became dried up and split; (As, TA;) and ↓ صَوَّحَ signifies [the same, or] became dried up and much split: (A:) or (and so the verb تصوّح said of wood, and the like,) became much split, spontaneously, and parts thereof became scattered: and تصيّح signifies the same. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of 'Alee, نَبْتِهِ ↓ فَبَادِرُوا العِلْمَ قَبْلَ تَصْوِيحِ (assumed tropical:) [Therefore hasten ye to obtain knowledge before the dryingup of its plants for want of mental vigour]. (TA.) ― -b2- تصوّح also signifies It became much split; (S, K;) said of hair &c.; (S;) as also ↓ انصاح : (K: [but this latter is more correctly expl. below:]) [or] said of hair, it fell off and became scattered; as also تصيّح: (K:) or it became much split, (A, L,) of itself, (L,) [or by reason of dryness, (see 2,)] and fell off and became scattered. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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