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أَصْيَدُ ذ [More, or most, wont, or able, to take, or capture, or catch, game, or prey]. أَصْيَدُ مِنْ لَيْثِ عِفِرِّينَ وَمِنْ ضَيْوَنٍ [More wont, or able, to capture prey than the lion of 'Ifirreen and than the he-cat] is a prov. (Meyd.) -A2- Also A camel having the disease termed صَيَد; (S, M, A, L;) and so ↓ صَادٌ , for ذُو صَادٍ, (L, K,) like مَالٌ for ذُو مَالٍ, (L,) or for ↓ صَيِدٌ : (L:) pl. of the first صِيدٌ. (L.) [Hence,] (assumed tropical:) A man unable to look aside, (S, M,) by reason of disease. (S.) (assumed tropical:) A man who raises his head by reason of pride. (S.) (tropical:) A king who looks not aside, (M, A,) to the right or left, by reason of his pride. (A.) (assumed tropical:) A king: (K:) originally used in relation to a camel, and a king is so called because he raises his head by reason of pride, or because he does not look to the right or left. (S.) And A man having an inclining, or a bending, neck. (K, TA.) ― -b2- الأَصْيَدُ (assumed tropical:) The lion; (K;) because he walks proudly, not looking aside, as though he had the disease termed صَيَد; (TA;) as also ↓ المُصْطَادُ [as act. part. n. of 8]; and ↓ الصَّادُ ; (K, TA;) thus likened to a camel having the disease above mentioned; or, as in some copies of the K, not الصَّادُ, but ↓ الصَيَّادُ . (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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