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سَدِمٌ ذ [is a part. n. of سَدِمَ: and is also app. used as an imitative sequent to نَدِمٌ]. You say [سَدِمٌ and] ↓ سَادِمٌ and ↓ سَدْمَانُ (M, K, TA) meaning Repenting and grieving: (TA:) or affected with anxiety: or with anxiety together with repentance: or with wrath, or rage, together with grief: (M, K, TA:) and سَدِمٌ نَدِمٌ, in which one is used as an imitative sequent to the other; and نَادِمٌ ↓ سَادِمٌ , and نَدْمَانُ ↓ سَدْمَانُ , [app. in like manner,] السَّدَمُ being seldom used without النَّدَمُ: (TA:) or [نَدِمٌ سَدِمٌ, and] ↓ نَادِمٌ سَادِمٌ , and ↓ نَدْمَانُ سَدْمَانُ ; in which one is said to be an imitative sequent to the other: (S:) or, accord. to IAmb, ↓سَادِمٌ in the phrase رَجُلٌ سَادِمٌ نَادِمٌ means, as some say, altered [for the worse] in intellect in consequence of grief; from مَآءٌ سُدُمٌ, i. e. “ water that has become altered [for the worse]: ” or, as others say, grieving, not able to go nor to come. (TA.) You say also رَجُلٌ سَدِمٌ A man affected with wrath, or rage. (S, TA.) ― -b2- And عَاشِقٌ سَدِمٌ Affected with amorous, or passionate, desire, in a vehement degree. (AO, K.) ― -b3- And in like manner, (TA,) فَحْلٌ سَدِمٌ (S, M, K) and ↓ سَدَمٌ [which is an inf. n. used as an epithet] and ↓ مَسْدُومٌ and ↓ مُسَدَّمٌ (M, K) A stallion [camel] excited by lust for the female: (S, M, K:) or one that is sent among the she-camels, and that brays amidst them, and, when they have become excited by lust, is taken forth from them, because what he begets is disesteemed; (M, K, TA;) therefore, when he is excited by lust, he is shackled, and pastures around the dwelling; and if he attacks the she-camels, he is muzzled: (TA:) or one that is in any manner debarred from covering; (K;) or the last two epithets have this last signification. (M.) ― -b4- And نَاقَةٌ سَدِمَةٌ An old and weak she-camel. (AO, (TA.) -A2- مَآءٌ سَدِمٌ and ↓ سَدَمٌ and ↓ سُدُمٌ (M, K) and ↓ سَدُمٌ (K) and ↓ سَدُومٌ (M, TA) and ↓ سُدُومٌ and ↓ سَدِيمٌ (TA) i. q. مُنْدَفِنٌ [i. e. Water filled up, stopped up, or choked up, with earth or dust; or into which the dust has been swept by the wind]: (M: [in the K and TA, erroneously, مُنْدَفِقٌ:]) pl. أَسْدَامٌ [a pl. of pauc.] and سِدَامٌ [a pl. of mult.]; or the sing. and pl. are alike; (M, K;) [i. e.] you say مَآءٌ أَسْدَامٌ and سِدَامٌ, applying pl. epithets to a sing. noun; (Z, TA;) as well as مِيَاهٌ أَسْدَامٌ (IAmb, TA, and Ham p. 102) and سِدَامٌ (IAmb, TA) meaning waters altered [for the worse] (IAmb, TA, and Ham ubi suprà) in consequence of long standing, and so سُدُمٌ: (Ham:) this last is pl. of ↓ سَدُومٌ , as also سُدْمٌ: (M, TA:) [and each of these two is also used as a sing.; i. e.] you say also ↓ رَكِيَّةٌ سُدْمٌ and ↓ سُدُمٌ meaning a well filled up, stopped up, or choked up, with earth or dust; or into which the dust has been swept by the wind: (S, K, TA: [in the CK, مُنْدَفِقَةٌ is erroneously put for مُنْدَفِنَةٌ:]) or into which varieties of small rubbish, and dust, or small pebbles, whirled round by the wind, have fallen, so that it is nearly choked up: (Lth, TA:) and ↓ مَآءٌ سُدُمٌ is expl. as meaning water that has become altered [for the worse]: (IAmb, TA:) ↓ مُسَدَّمٌ , also, applied to water, signifies the same as سَدِمٌ; (M, K;) and so does ↓ مَسْدُومٌ : (TA:) [or ↓ the former of these, so applied, prevented from flowing by dust and wind. (Freytag, from the Deewán of Jereer.)]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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