Core sense — he thirsted, or he thirsted violentlygenerated
He thirsted, or he thirsted violently.
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صَدَا: see 2, in two places.
Core sense — clapping with the handsgenerated
Er-Rāghib: it is like the echo, because there is no profit in it; or it is from الصَّدُّ, because those who practised it in their worship used to turn away from El-Islám. [See more in the second paragraph of art. صد]
A maṣdar whose verb is صَدَا.
AHeyth cites as an example the saying of Hassán: [Their prayer is the clapping with the hands, and whistling: like the saying in the Kur 8:35]
Said of a man.
Said to be originally صَدَّدَ.
meaning the same.
Their prayer at the House (of Allah) is nothing but whistling and clapping of hands: (Its only answer can be), "Taste ye the penalty because ye blasphemed."Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)
It also signifies مُصَدِّيَةٌ.
Core sense — he imitated him; he managed an affair with thought; he coaxed himgenerated
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Also: he, or it, corresponded to him, or it, and was equal to him, or it.
In the Kur 38:1 some read صَادِ with kesr, as an imperative from المُصَادَاةُ, meaning المُعَارَضَةُ; and hence الصَّدَى [i. e. the echo], because it imitates the first sound. So the meaning is: imitate the Kur-án by your works.
Said of an affair.
The managing here is تَدْبِير.
Said by a man who had helped his she-camel in bringing forth; he disliked binding her fore shank to her arm, as it would distress her, and he disliked leaving her, as she might wander off and a wolf devour her young one.
Said of a pastor: when the camels thirst before the end of their usual period of being kept from drinking, he restricts them to travelling by night, so as to reach water the next morning.
on this sense According to As, minding a thing attentively, carefully, or anxiously.
He soothed, coaxed, or cajoled him; or deceived, beguiled, or outwitted him; or tried to do so. Synonyms: دَارَاهُ, دَاجَاهُ, and سَاتَرَهُ, all of which have one meaning, [though the last implies concealing enmity,] and لَايَنَهُ.
A saying mentioned in the A.
Core sense — it returned an echo; he diedgenerated
It (a mountain) returned an echo.
And he (a man) died; as though his echo ceased, the alif having a privative effect.
Core sense — corresponding to a thing like an echo; feigning heedlessness; diverting oneselfgenerated
This is Er-Rāghib's explanation.
But according to others it is originally تَصَدَّدَ, and signifies تَعَرَّضَ and تَضَرَّعَ.
[See 5 in art. صد, where the usages of this verb, apart from the senses mentioned and indicated here and below, are fully explained.]
It also signifies feigning oneself unmindful, negligent, inattentive, or heedless, without really being so.
And diverting oneself.
See also 2.
To him dost thou attend;
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
Core sense — an echo; a sound or cry; the brain, or seat of hearing; thirstgenerated
Sometimes written صَدًا.
What a mountain returns to one who utters a sound, voice, or cry in it; or the sound of the mountain and the like that responds to one; or what responds to one with the like of his voice, or cry, in the mountains and such places.
Meaning he perished, or may he perish; mentioned in art. صم.
Meaning may God destroy him; mentioned in art. صم.
For when a man dies, the صدى hears nothing from him that it should respond to. [See also another explanation of this saying in what follows.]
And a sound, voice, or cry, in an absolute sense.
Also the part of the head, or the part of the brain, which is the place of hearing; and so one says:
And the brain itself; and the whole contents (literally the stuffing, حَشْو) of the head, also called the هَامَة.
And a bird that cries in the هَامَة [or head] of the slain when his blood has not been avenged by retaliation.
Or a bird that comes forth from his head, or from the head of the slain, when he, or it, has become consumed, or decayed; also called the هَامَة, according to the assertion of the people of the Time of Ignorance; mentioned by A 'Obeyd.
Some of them used to say that the bones of the dead became a هَامَة which flew. Plural أَصْدَآءٌ.
[This may be meant by the saying that it signifies] the male of the بُوم and هَام, plural أَصْدَآءٌ.
They used to say that when a man was slain and his blood was not avenged by retaliation, there came forth from his head a bird like the بُومَة, i. e. the هَامَة, the male being called the صدى, and it cried upon his grave:
Meaning, of the blood of the slayer; and if the slayer was slain, it stopped its crying.
It is said to signify also the body of a human being after his death; or the remains of the dead in his grave, i. e. his جُثَّة [or corpse].
And, according to El-'Adebbes, [a cricket;] a certain flying thing that creaks by night, hops, and flies; the common people think it is the جُنْدَب, but it is only the صدى, the جندب being smaller than the صدى. [See also الصَّرَّارُ.]
And a certain fish, black, long, and bulky; ism waḥda صَدَاةٌ.
And [a man] small, or slender, in person; and so صَدَأْ, with ء, as Az mentions. [See also صَدْعٌ and صَدَعٌ.]
And knowing what is conducive to the good of cattle; or صَدَى مَالٍ means this; or gentle in the management of cattle, like إِزَآءُ مَالٍ, as in the Jm; or, as some say specifically, of camels; so one says:
Also thirst, or violent thirst. [See the first paragraph, where it is mentioned as a maṣdar.]
It is said that thirst does not become violent without the brain drying, and so the skin of the forehead of one who dies of thirst cracks.
See also the next paragraph.
This is as indicated in the M.
And صَدَاةٌ has the same meaning.
Core sense — thirsting, or thirsting violentlygenerated
This is a maṣdar used as an adjective.
The feminines are صَدِيَةٌ, صَادِيَةٌ, and صَدْيَا, respectively; and the plural of صَادِيَةٌ is صَوَادٍ.
Core sense — the act of one who raises his head and breast, looking at a thinggenerated
See صَدًى, last sentence.
Core sense — thirsting, or thirsting violentlygenerated
And its feminine, صَدْيَا: see صَدٍ.
Core sense — thirsting; tall palm-treesgenerated
Feminine with ة, and the plural of the feminine صَوَادٍ: see صَدٍ.
As the plural of صَادِيَةٌ.
And sometimes, palm-trees that do not drink water; or palm-trees that drink water [thus in a copy of the M]; and some say, the tall ones among them and among other trees.
Core sense — a cup of wine having much watergenerated
[A cup of wine] having much water; the opposite of مُعْرَقَةٌ, which means having little water.
Core sense — a man who thirsts muchgenerated
A man who thirsts much.
Core sense — the woman who decorates a pillow with black linesgenerated
The woman who faces, or decorates, (تُصَدِّى [which I render like this by conjecture, finding nothing to indicate its meaning except what follows]) the وِسَادَة [i. e. pillow, or cushion,] with الأَرَنْدَج, meaning black lines, upon the leather that forms its covering.