صحصح

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Reduplicated from the root ص ح ح (ṣ-ḥ-ḥ).

Pronunciation 1[edit]

Verb[edit]

صَحْصَحَ (ṣaḥṣaḥa) Iq, non-past يُصَحْصِحُ‎ (yuṣaḥṣiḥu) (Classical Arabic)

  1. be apparent, manifest
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Pronunciation 2[edit]

  • IPA(key): /sˤaħ.sˤaħ/, /sˤaħ.sˤaːħ/

Adjective[edit]

صَحْصَح or صَحْصَاح (ṣaḥṣaḥ or ṣaḥṣāḥ) (Classical Arabic)

  1. plain, even (of ground)
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Noun[edit]

صَحْصَح or صَحْصَاح (ṣaḥṣaḥ or ṣaḥṣāḥm (plural صَحَاصِح (ṣaḥāṣiḥ)) (Classical Arabic)

  1. even ground, plain
    • a. 625, الأعشى al-ʾaʿšā, edited by Geyer, Rudolf, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎[1], volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, page 105:
      تَعَالَلْتُهَا بِالسَوْطِ بَعْدَ كَلَالِهَا … عَلَى صَحْصَح تَرْمِي (var. تَدْمِي) بِهِ بَخَصَاتِهَا
      taʕālaltuhā bi-s-sawṭi baʕda kalālihā … ʕalā ṣaḥṣaḥ tarmī (var. tadmī) bi-hī baḵaṣātihā
      I have hounded them with the scourge yet after their exhaustion … on a plain onto which their solar dermis hits
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