… the colors of the horse among the Arabs “The Cobbler, the Qalqushendi and the Dog” is the most famous writer on colors
“Dahma, greenery, al-muddah, al-kamma, rose, shakra, al-safra, al-sanabiyya, al-shahba and al-balq” are the ten main colors of horses among the Arabs, while the colors of horses are mentioned in the heritage in prose, more than what is mentioned in poetry. The colors of horses were mentioned by a number of books, the most famous of which is Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Abdullah Al-Khatib Al-Khatib Al-Iskafi, in his book “Principles of Language”, as reported by Al-Qalqashandi and Al-Kalbi. Abi Obeida. A careful investigation of the horse’s colors and their descriptions, and the identification of the subtle differences between them, which are not visible to the eyes, but rather to the specialists, indicates the intensity of the Arabs’ care for horses. Each of the ten main colors of the Arabs are divided into different degrees of the main color, which are
The semblance
It is the pure blackness, and the pure adham is the one whose green becomes stronger until its blackness is cleared, and what is mixed with greenness of dust goes away.
Among the ranks of “Dahma” are: “Jawun”, which is less black than the pure adham, then “Al Ahim”: it is less black than Al Joun, except that it is the red of the nostrils and the sides. It is less black than john, its nostrils are red, and its shape is yellowish like green, so it is called: the best adam, “meaning blackness to green, I tend to”, and “the best” is like the best, with its nostrils inclined to the punch. And “Al-Ghahbi”: the darkest black adham, and “Al-Dajuji”: the pure adham.
The Arabs said: “Horses came to their kings.” It was narrated on the authority of the Noble Messenger, who said: “The best of the horses, the most important, the most disgraceful, the disgraceful, the three are divorced.
Greenness
“Green”, and similar in horse colors, it is: dust mixed with oil until it struck green, and it differs from green, which is the color of plants, grass and other things, because green is black for the Arabs, and not vegetables, and green for horses: its color is the color of green , Which is the “Dizj” of the Persians, according to some of them. And the green “duzj”: the color of his face, ears and nostrils is the color of black ash, and the Arabs may call it al-Adgham as well.
The “red” green: is lower to hum and darker, except that its relatives, belly and ears are green, and the “sweetest” green: it is the problems of the dhimma, and it is less black than the john. And the “fittest” of the horse: it is green in which it is black to yellowish.
And “athal”: is the one whose green is slightly higher than the color of bitter melon, and it was said in “Al-Tahla”: It is the color of the spleen, and it was said: It is between dust and whiteness, as it is said: “If the blue becomes darker, then it is dirtier, and the leaves of the horse: it is the green that Its color is like the color of ash and the smoke of the Ramt tree, and it is the one whose navel and skin are all green, and whoever moves it to the root of his sin is a black line.
And “the tukh” of the horse is green, whose face, nostrils and ears are the color of the mare, which is called the daisy in Persian. It was said in al-Duzij: “He is black in a dark, and his head is blacker, and the most furry than the horse: he is the one whose color is without the color of“ al-Akhab ”in black, and it is closer to the dust, similar to the color of ash. And the same is true of green, ash, and thud: towards a cold and ash, it is dust in blackness.
Rust
“Rust”, in the colors of the horse, is a yellowish brown that strikes to blackness, and every color of the horse rises, except for the rudder, and the mare is rusty, and the female is rusty; And it is said in the rust that it is a blonde mixed with blackness, and it was said: It is the blackness of a reddish drink, and it was also said: It is a color between the blonde and the brim, and the rust is like a rose, a bob and a blond, so it is a branch of the red color, except that its redness is close to black, and it has a little yellow that brought its color closer. To rust.
Bay
It is a red, with blackness intertwined, and the masculine and feminine are equal in it, and the Arabs differentiate between the dark and blond mare, with custom and sin. If they are red, then the mare is blond, and if they are black, then he is dead. And the redder than the silence is the closest to the black.
And “the best friend” is the mare whose nostrils and relatives are red (proximity: the loin); And his hair, and his body hair is less black than the hair of the donkeys, and the “darkest”: I showed redness in his navel than the best, but his redness is not clear, and the “blood” of the sleeve: it is very red in the purity of the color. And “Al-Madhib”: It is the one whose red color is mixed with a yellowish color that resembles the color of gold.
And the “red kumite” is like the blood-sucking, except that it is redder than it, and it is the one whose redness has intensified and rests in the ends of his hair and its roots, and “the juror”: is the lowest of the kumquat to the chakra. And some of them say it is not received, and some say it is dead.
And “the most costly quantum”: it is the one whose redness has not been described, and at the ends of his hair is seen a blackness that is closer to burning, while the “corrosive kumite”: it is the one in which is rust and brownish and has a little yellowish metallic rust.
Their proverbs: If it is said that the red horse fell from the top of a mountain and a ladder, be true.
And it was mentioned in the Book of Al-Furusiya Al-Ramah: that a man came to the Holy Prophet and said: “I want to prepare a horse.” The noble prophet said, “Buy the swindling of the ungodly one. The right hand divorces or from the silence on this good thing.” (No. 23)
Ibn al-Atheer also mentioned in his book Jami` al-Usul in the hadiths of the Messenger, the saying of the Messenger, “On you, by every dead person, the deceitful, or the blond, the deceitful, the disgraced, or the deceitful of the horses. Its horses and its severity.
Roses
It is the pure redness of the horse, while the skin and the roots of the hair are black, and in the middle of the back is the Hark, the “Harik: the meeting of the two shoulder plates between the neck and the back,” to the tail, a reddish plan, which is closer to blackness, called “Qahhama.”
The “black rosette” is the one that is topped with a yellowish color of the golden dot, topped with a brownish, and its cloud is dark black, and “the darkest rosette”: it is what the non-Arab people call “samand,” and on it is a red that is not pure, mixed with a hair of black with redness, and the ghebas was said: “whiteness.” It has brownish color like a wolf. Ghutra in color is similar to ghabsa, mixed with red. ”The stupidest of animals is said to be“ al-Adlam. ”They said a ghebasa is like a dull, and it was said in al-Adlam that it is black…
Bleaching
It is a “pure red”, the custom and guilt reddish with it, the black color is named quantitatively, and the blond is blond.
And it was said that the Arabs used to be pessimistic about the blond horse, so the Messenger wanted to nullify this pessimism, so he said: “Horses are blessed in their blondes.” (Narrated by Abu Dawud.)
And it was reported in the news that the Arabs used to be pessimistic about the blond because of his excessive speed in the war, and it is narrated that on the day of Jabla, the bastard bin Zerara was on a blond horse, so he began to say: “Blond if you go forward, you will be slaughtered, and if you delay you will be soured.” So I went for example, because the bleached horse is its speed, then the blond if it ran at its usual speed. In the war, it was the first horse to reach the enemy, so it was “killed”, and if it was slower and retreated in defeat, it stumbled behind it and knocked it down.
The astigmatism
The colors of the horse do not have what is called white, so the meteor in the colors of the horse is the white that is dominated by blackness, so the mare is gray, and the female is meteoric and the plural are meteors.
As soon as the whites of the bald persons included separated black hairs, which were many or less, it was said: A bald man is red with black. If the whiteness includes red hairs, as described in the black, it is said: grizzly, reddish. If the white of the bald eagles is blackened, then it is camphor baldness relative to date palm pollen, and it is also clear bald, which is whiter, and they do not say a white mare.
In his book: “Equestrian Science and the Politics of Horses,” Baktut al-Ramah mentions that the horse is the most famous of the luxury boats, and it has a race called the bearbata, which is the most abundant of horses. Boats of kings.
Saffra
It is the color of its yellowishness like gold, and it may have black hairs that mix it up, but it is not dominant over it, and the mane and fore of the horse (the hair growing between the ears) and its tail is blotchy, and to the whiteness is closer to it than the yellowish one.
Al-Asma’i said: “It is not called yellow until the mane and his tail are yellowed, while Abu Ubaidah said: “The bright yellow of the horse is the Sara yellow (the siren above the mare’s board), with a cloud of dusk surmounting it (ghebasa and gheb: the color of ashes, which is whitish with dust). And it is yellow-sided and hypochondriac, it is surmounted by a dip, and the hair of its forelock and tail is dark black.
And the yellow which the Kings call the Sahrawi, so it is between the yellow and the iris, and his knot and his sin are two horses, meaning blackness as the color of musk, and the yellowest yellow of the horse, and it is yellow on the sides and neck, and the upper part of his families are all his board, neck, and helpless, which is not very white, and his side, slaughter and groin (the inside of the neck) His eyes are yellow, his forehead and kneecap, and his tail is black, and it is red.
If the custom and the guilt are inclined to whiteness, then it is the blatant yellow, and if the custom and the tail are black and there is no redness in them, then it is the extreme yellow, and the “extremity” of the horse is the black head and tail, and the rest of it is contrary to that, or their white and the rest are contrary to that, and the yellowish: it is the one The whiteness of his forelock, his mane and his sin is stronger, and Al-Kalbi says: “If the skin of the horse is black, the hair will grow black, and if it is white, the yellowish tones and the hair grows white.
Sanabiya
The “Sanabi” is from the horse, and it is the one whose color is mixed with a white hair that does not mix with its color.
And it is said in it “Adham Sanabi,” if the pillar is the color of the fat, as well as in the kamma, the rose and the shakra, then it is called, in whatever color it is its pillar, (Kumit Sanabi, Rose Sanabi, and Ashkar Sanabi). And it was said in al-Sanabi that it is the color that is between red and yellow, attributed to tanab, which a pigment is made from mustard and raisins.
Baldness
And “Bulqah” in the Persians and elsewhere, is black and white, which is the appearance of whiteness in any color, and the bulgur in the horse is called by its mixing of colors, where it is said: dull, blond, blond, as well as in all other colors. And if the face of the blister hits a sunken, a sore or a blue, then he is invited to all that befall him of that, then the adjective is sealed with the mention of the bulge.
And from the palate: “Al-Ablaq Al-Daraa”: He is the one who showed white in his body, and was saved from the whiteness of his neck and his head or his head in particular.
And “Al-Ablaq Al-Mutrif”: It is white-headed and sinful, and the rest of his body contradicts that, as well as if it is black or red and the rest of the body is unlike them. And if the tail is whitened alone, without the head or neck, then it is also mutilating, and it was said in the extremity that it is white-eared, leg, custom and sinful, and the rest of the body contradicts that, and likewise if the head and tail are blackened and unlike the rest of the body, then it is also extremist.
And “cloaca”: which has an elongation in its groin, and a polished cloak does not have an elongation in its thorn, and it was said: It is the one in whose body there are spots that differ from the rest of its color, that is, the color it is. And he called polished by its color if it has a luster like a dirham and is bigger, then it is said: Adham is polished, and the amount of polished, and most of the shine is in the cuff.
