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صُعَدَآءُ ذ A sigh, or sighing; a breathing with an expression of pain, grief, or sorrow: or with difficulty: (L:) a long breathing: (K:) or a prolonged breathing: (S:) or a loud breathing: (A:) accord. to some, a breathing emitted upwards. (L.) You say, تَنَفَّسَ الصُّعَدَآءَ, (L,) or تنفّس صُعَدَآءَ, (A,) and ↓ تنفّس صُعُدًا , (L,) He sighed; uttered a sigh or sighing; or breathed with an expression of pain, grief, or sorrow: (L:) [or uttered a prolonged breathing:] or breathed loudly. (A.) ― -b2- [Hence,] فُلَانٌ يَتْبَعُ صُعَدَآءَهُ, (A,) or يَتَتَبَّعُ صُعُدَآءَهُ, (L, [in which the noun is evidently mistranscribed,]) (tropical:) Such a one raises his head, and does not stoop it, by reason of pride: (A:) or does not raise his head nor stoop it. (L. [The former explanation seems to be the right.]) ― -b3- See also صَعُودٌ, in four places.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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