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
Conjugation edit

Pronunciation 2 edit

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

Adjective edit

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

  1. plain, even (of ground)
Declension edit

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
Declension edit