سد

He closed, or closed up, an interstice, or intervening space; and he stopped up, or repaired and made firm, a breach or gap.

maṣdar سَدٌّ and سدّد, but the latter has an intensive meaning, or relates to several objects.

with kesr, the first of these being explained as اِسْتِقَامَةٌ. Said of a spear, an arrow, a saying, an action, or a thing generally.

Second person سَدِدْتَ, with fet-ḥ to the س, explained as اِسْتِقَامَةٌ, like سَدَادٌ, of which it is said to be a contraction. Said of a saying and of an affair.

the same as صَارَ سَدِيدًا.

In the same way استدّ has the meaning of اِسْتَقَامَ, and so do اسدّ and تسدّد.

Said of an affair.

With عَلَى الرَّمْىِ: for shooting; the same as استقام.

A poet says: [I teaching him the art of shooting every day; and when his fore arm became in a right state, he shot me]

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As holds that the reading اشتدّ, with ش, is not to be regarded.

See form 1, first sentence.

. With نَحْوَهُ, towards him or it, or إِلَى الصَّيْدِ, towards the game; and شدّدهُ, with ش, is a variant of it. Towsheeh.

Said in the same way of his spear; the opposite of عَرَضَهُ or عَرَّضَهُ.

See also form 1, near the end of the paragraph.

See form 1, near the beginning.

See also the latter half of the same paragraph, in five places.

See form 1, in the latter half of the paragraph, in three places.

Said of an interstice, or intervening space: it became closed, or closed up; and so استدّ. Said of a breach or gap, both verbs mean: it became stopped up, or repaired and made firm.

Both expressions mean the same, and describe what follows on pouring water into a skin.

See the preceding paragraph, in two places.

See also form 1, in the latter half of the paragraph, in five places.

Or سَدٌّ is what man makes, and سُدٌّ what God creates, such as a mountain.

The plural is أَسْدَادٌ, a plural of paucity, or أَسِدَّةٌ, also a plural of paucity, and سُدُودٌ, a plural of multitude; the last of these follows the general rule and the second is irregular — or, as ISd says, in his opinion أَسِدَّةٌ is the plural of سِدَادٌ.

Also a thing coming between two others as a separation, a partition, a fence, a barrier, a rampart, or an obstacle; and a mountain. See also سِدَادٌ.

Or, as some say, anything that faces one and bars, or excludes, what is behind it.

Said of goats, meaning that they are not of great use.

In the Qur'ān 18:92 and 93, and 36:8, some read with fet-ḥ and some with ḍamm.

That is, the ways became closed against him, and the courses he should follow became unclear to him. In the CK ضُرِبَتْ.

The singular of أَسْدَادٌ, by the general rule, is سُدٌّ.

The basket is the kind called سَلَّة, and its covers are أَطْبَاق. The plural is سِدَادٌ and سُدُودٌ.

Lth: سُدُودٌ means baskets of the kind called سِلَال, plural of سَلَّةٌ, made of twigs and having covers; a single one is called سَدَّةٌ, not سَدٌّ.

On other authority, the سَلَّة is called سَدَّةٌ and طَبْلٌ.

See the preceding paragraph, throughout.

See سَدِيدٌ.

See سَدٌّ, last sentence.

A disease in the nose that stops it up, attacking the passage of the breath and preventing breathing; also سُدَادٌ.

Also a thing that obstructs the passage of the humours, and of the food, in the body.

[And any obstruction in the body: plural سُدَدٌ.]

[A vestibule, or porch, for shade and shelter, before the door of a house: this is a common meaning of the word, and is apparently what is meant by saying that] the سُدَّة is what is before the door of a house.

Or, as some say, a سَقِيفَة, that is, a roof or covering such as projects over the door of a house, or a place roofed over; or a ظُلَّة, a roof or covering for shade and shelter, over a door.

Or it is a thing, or place, like a صُفَّة [or سَقِيفَة] before a بَيْت, that is, a house, or perhaps here a tent; and a ظُلَّة at the door of a house.

Aboo-Sa'eed: in the language of the desert Arabs it means a space called a فِنَآء, belonging to a tent of hair-cloth and the like; those who make it like a صُفَّة or like a سَقِيفَة explain the word as the people of the towns and villages use it.

Or it means the door itself, or has this meaning as well; some apply it to the door itself.

Also the surrounding portico of the interior court of the largest, or larger, mosque. Plural سُدَدٌ.

Abu-d-Dardà said this, or مَنْ يَأْتِ الخ; the griefs disquiet him so that he cannot remain at rest, but stands up and sits down. Mentioned under قدم. He said it when he came to the gate of Mo'áwiyeh and was not given permission to enter.

Occurring in a tradition; it means الأَبْوَابُ.

Also palm-sticks, that is, palm-branches stripped of their leaves and bound together, side by side, upon which one sleeps.

See the following paragraph, in four places.

[A maṣdar of the intransitive verb سَدَّ, as also is سَدَدٌ.]

That is, in speaking, in the managing or disposing of affairs, and in shooting.

See also سِدَادٌ, in three places.

See سُدَّةٌ, first sentence.

A thing with which an interstice, or intervening space, is closed, or closed up. [See also سَدٌّ.]

And a thing with which a breach, or gap, is stopped up, or repaired and made firm. Plural أَسِدَّةٌ.

According to ISh it means primarily some milk that dries up in the orifice of a she-camel's teat, because it stops up the passage of the milk. Meyd mentions this in explaining the proverb given below.

Also a stopper of a bottle and the like: in this sense with kesr only [to the س], and likewise in the sense that follows.

Also a body of horse and foot serving as blockaders of the frontier of a hostile country.

See سُدٌّ.

Applied to a spear: seldom missing; and, applied to a spear and to an arrow: that hits the mark.

Applied to a saying — and so are سَدَادٌ and سَدَدٌ — and to an action, and to an affair, and so is أَسَدُّ: right, direct, or in a right state; having, or taking, a right direction; tending towards the right point or object.

سِدٌّ, applied to speech, means the same, and also true.

See سَدٌّ, in two places.

See سَدِيدٌ.

An eye whose sight has gone; that has become white, and with which one does not see, but which has not yet burst.

Or an eye that is open but does not see strongly. Plural سُدُودٌ or سُدُدٌ.

See سَدِيدٌ, in two places.

[Properly a place of closing, or stopping.] See form 1, in two places.

See سَدِيدٌ.

Directed; pointed in a right direction.

See the preceding paragraph, in two places.