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صُدٌّ ذ (M, A, L, Msb, K) and ↓ صَدٌّ (K) The side of a valley, (M, A, Msb, K,) or of a شِعْب [i. e. the kind of water-course so called, or a ravine], and of a mountain where it forms a ravine, (M, L,) and (tropical:) of a road: (A:) pl. [of pauc.] أَصْدَادٌ and [of mult.] صُدُودٌ. (TA.) And ↓ صَدٌّ (L) and ↓ صَدَدٌ (M, L) signify [in like manner] A side; a lateral, or an adjacent, part, quarter, tract, or the like; syn. of the former جَانِبٌ, (L,) and of the latter نَاحِيَةٌ. (M, L.) اِنْضَمَّ عَلَيْهِمُ الصُّدَّانِ [lit. The two sides of the road confined them] means (tropical:) they occupied the middle of the road. (A.) And الصُّدَّانِ signifies also (tropical:) The two edges, or extremities, or cusps, of the notch of an arrow, between which is the place of the bow-string; syn. شَرْخَا الفُوقِ. (O. [In the K, erroneously, شَرْخَا الفَرْقِ.]) ― -b2- Also صُدٌّ and ↓ صَدٌّ A mountain: (AA, S, M, L, Msb, K:) and so سُدٌّ and سَدٌّ: (AA, S, M:) pl. أَصْدَادٌ and صُدُودٌ. (M, L.) ― -b3- And ↓ صَدٌّ [or صُدٌّ] A cloud, or collection of clouds, rising high, and appearing like a mountain: and so سَدٌّ [or سُدٌّ (q. v.)], which is the more approved word. (M, L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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