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سُدًى ذ and ↓ سَدًى , (S, M, K,) the former the more common, (S, K,) used alike as sing. and pl., (S, * M, K,) Left, let alone, or neglected; or left to pasture by itself or by themselves; (S, M, K;) applied to a camel, (K, TA,) and to camels: (S, K, TA:) you say نَاقَةٌ سُدًى (TA) and إِِبِلٌ سُدًى: (S, TA:) and ↓ سَادٍ signifies the same [as a sing. epithet]. (M, K.) أَيَحْسَبُ ا@لْإِِنْسَانُ أَنْ يُتْرَكَ سُدًى, in the Kur [lxxv. 36], means Doth man think that he is to be left to himself, uncontrolled, neither commanded nor forbidden? (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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