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صَيْهَبٌ ذ A hard place: (Sh, K:) pl. صَيَاهِبُ. (Sh, TA.) Level ground: (K:) so some say: (Sh, TA:) pl. as above: (TA:) or ضَيْهَبٌ has this meaning. (O.) Any place, (K,) or any high, or rugged, or high and rugged, ground, or place of a mountain, (O,) upon which the sun is vehemently hot so that flesh-meat is broiled upon it: (O, K:) Lth assigns this meaning to ضَيْهَبٌ; but AM says that the right word is صَيْهَبٌ. (TA in art. ضهب.) And A hard rock: and stones: (K:) [or] by stones are here meant hard rocks: (O:) [but] this is a meaning of the pl. صَيَاهِبُ. (JK.) ― -b2- A hard, or strong, camel; fem. with ة: likened to the stones so called. (T, O, TA.) ― -b3- ― -b4- And A tall man. (K.) ― -b5- And A hot day: (K:) or a day intensely hot: (O, TA:) and so صَيْهَدٌ. (TA.) ― -b6- And Intenseness of heat: (K:) so on the authority of IAar alone; others explaining it as an epithet. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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