أَشَدُّ
1.
[Possessing the quality of
شِدَّة, in a greater, and in the greatest, degree; i. e. more, and most, hard, &c.]. See an example in a verse cited voce شِدَّةٌ. حَلَبْتَ بِالسَّاعِدِ الأَشَدِّ, or حَلَبْتُهَا الخ, is a prov., explained in article حلب. And بَقِىَ أَشَدُّهُ. [The hardest part of it has remained] is another prov., applied to him who attains a part of that which he wants, and is unable to attain the completion thereof. (TA. [See also Freytag's “ Arab. Prov., ” i. 169.]) [With an indeterminate subst. or verbal noun following it in the accusative case, it supplies the place of a simple epithet denoting the comparative and superlative degrees; as in أَشَدُّ سَوَادًا
More, and most, black; and أَشَدُّ غَضَبًا
More, and most, angry.]
2.
أَشَدُّ النَّهَارِ
The time when the day is most advanced, the sun being at the highest. (L. [See شَدُّ النَّهَارِ.])