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Q. 1 سَنْدَرَةٌ ذ (M, K) inf. n. of سَنْدَرَ, which signifies He (a man) went quickly: (TK:) [or was quick or expeditious:] syn. of the former سُرْعَةٌ: (M, K:) Sgh mentions it in art. سدر, regarding the ن as augmentative. (TA.) Hence, accord. to some, the saying of 'Alee, “ أَنَا الَّذِى سَمَّتْنِ أُمِّى حَيْدَرَهْ
كَلَيْثِ غَابَاتٍ غَلِيظِ القَصَرَهْ
أَكِيلُكُمْ بالسَّيْفِ كَيْلَ السَّنْدَرَهْ
” [I am he whom my mother named Heydereh, like a lion of forests, thick in the neck: I will measure you with the sword with a quick measuring:] meaning, I will slay you quickly, before flight. (TA. [But see what follows.]) ― -b2- A large, or an ample, sort of كَيْل [or measuring]: (M, K:) so expl. by some in the saying of 'Alee above quoted: or in that saying it is from سَنْدَرَةُ as the name of a certain woman, who used to sell wheat and give full measure, or of a man who did so. (TA.) [See also سَنْدَرَةٌ as a subst., below.] ― -b3- Also The being bold, or daring: or boldness, or daringness. (TA.) ― -b4- And The being sharp in affairs, and acting with penetrative energy: or sharpness in affairs, and penetrative energy. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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