ص ل ب

Arabic

Root

ص ل ب • (ṣ-l-b)

1. related to rigidity

Derived terms

• Form I: صَلُبَ (ṣaluba, “to be or become rigid, to be or become solid, to be or become stiff, to be or become unyielding, to be or become sturdy”)
  • Verbal noun: صَلَابَة (ṣalāba)
  • Active participle: صَالِب (ṣālib)
• Form I: صَلَبَ (ṣalaba, “to crucify”)
  • Verbal noun: صَلْب (ṣalb)
  • Active participle: صَالِب (ṣālib)
  • Passive participle: مَصْلُوب (maṣlūb)
• Form II: صَلَّبَ (ṣallaba, “to stiffen, to harden, to make sturdy, to render tough; to support, to prop; to crucify”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصْلِيب (taṣlīb)
  • Active participle: مُصَلِّب (muṣallib)
  • Passive participle: مُصَلَّب (muṣallab)
• Form IV: أَصْلَبَ (ʔaṣlaba, “to stretch forth the neck”)
  • Verbal noun: إِصْلَاب (ʔiṣlāb)
  • Active participle: مُصْلِب (muṣlib)
• Form V: تَصَلَّبَ (taṣallaba, “to be or become rigid, to be or become solid, to be or become stiff, to be or become unyielding, to be or become sturdy; to exert one’s strength, to behave with rigour, to strain oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَصَلُّب (taṣallub)
  • Active participle: مُتَصَلِّب (mutaṣallib)

• صُلْب (ṣulb, “hard, solid, stiff; back-bone”)
• صَلِيب (ṣalīb, “hard, solid, stiff; bone-marrow”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ص ل ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 840–841
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ص ل ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 511
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ص ل ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1711–1713
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ص ل ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 721