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1 سَدِمَ ذ , (S, M, K,) aor. سَدَمَ , (K,) inf. n. سَدَمٌ, (S, M, K,) He repented and grieved: (S:) or he was, or became, affected with anxiety: or with anxiety together with repentance: or with wrath, or rage, together with grief. (M, K.) [Hence,] one says, مَا لَهُ هَمٌّ وَلَا سَدَمٌ إِِلَّا ذَاكَ [He has no object of anxiety nor of repentance and grief except that: or this saying may be from what next follows]. (S.) ― -b2- سَدِمَ بِالشَّىْءِ, aor. and inf. n. as above, He desired the thing vehemently, eagerly, greedily, very greedily, or excessively; hankered after it, or coveted it; and he was, or became, devoted, addicted, or attached, to it: (TK:) [but these meanings of the verb are perhaps only inferred from the saying that] السَّدَمُ is syn. with الحِرْصُ: and اللَّهَجُ بِالشَّىْءِ, (M, K, [in the CK اللَّهْجُ,]) and الوُلُوعُ. (TA.) Hence the trad., مَنْ كَانَتِ الدُّنْيَا هَمَّهُ وَسَدَمَهُ جَعَلَ ا@للّٰهُ فَقْرَهُ بَيْنَ عَيْنَيْهِ [To whomsoever the present state of existence is the object of his anxiety and of his eager desire &c., God places his poverty before his eyes]. (TA.) -A2- And سدم, [i. e. سَدِمَ, as is indicated by the form of the part. n. سَدِمٌ, and by سَدَمٌ as an inf. n. used in the sense of that part. n.,] said of water, It became altered [for the worse] by reason of long standing, and overspread with [the green substance termed] طُحْلُب, and choked with dust and other things that had fallen into it. (A, TA.) -A3- [And سَدِمَ said of a stallion, He was withheld from covering: so in the Deewán of Jereer, accord. to Freytag: it is said of a stallion-camel: see سَدِمٌ.] -A4- سَدَمَ المَآءَ طُولُ العَهْدِ بِالشَّارِبَةِ [The length of time that had elapsed since the coming thereto of the drinkers] altered the water [for the worse]. (A, TA.) ― -b2- And سَدَمَ البَابَ He shut, or closed, the door; syn. رَدَّهُ; (IAar, M, TA;) in the K, erroneously, رَدَمَهُ: and so سَطَمَهُ. (TA.) -A5- See also سَدِيمٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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