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صَعِيدٌ ذ High, or elevated, land or ground: or high, or elevated, land or ground, above such as is low, or depressed: or even land or ground: (L:) or even land or ground, without any trees: (Lth, L:) or a [desert such as is termed] صَحْرَآء: (A:) or the surface of the earth; (Th, Zj, S, A, Msb, K;) whether it be dust or earth, or otherwise: Zj says, I know not any difference of opinion among the lexicologists on this point: (Msb:) [such is said to be its meaning in the Kur iv. 46 and v. 9; and therefore in performing the act termed التَّيَمَّم,] a man should strike his hands upon the surface of the earth, and not care whether there be in chat place dust or not: (Zj:) [hence] one says, طَارَ صِيتُكَ فِى القَرِيبِ وَالبَعِيدِ وَبَلَغَ مُنْتَهَى الصَّعِيدِ [Thy fame has flown through the near and the distant regions, and reached the extremity of the surface of the earth]: (A:) or صَعِيدٌ signifies the earth, or ground, itself; (IAar, A, L;) as in the saying عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّعِيدِ, meaning Sit thou upon the earth, or ground: (A:) or good earth or land: or earth, or land, not mixed with sand nor with salt soil: (L:) or dust, or earth, (Fr, S, L, Msb, K,) such as is pure, upon the surface of the ground or that has come forth from within it; thus accord. to Az in the Kur iv. 46 and v. 9, in the opinion of most of the learned: (Msb:) or only earth containing dust; not applied to a coarse, nor to a fine, بَطْحَآء; nor to a coarse كَثِيب; although it be mixed with dust: (Esh-Sháfi'ee, L:) pl. صُعُدٌ and صُعُدَاتٌ, (S, L, K,) the latter a pl. pl. (Msb, TA.) ― -b2- And A wide, or an ample, place. (L.) ― -b3- And A road, (L, Msb, K,) whether wide or narrow: (L:) pls. as above (L, Msb) and صُعْدَانٌ. (L.) It is said in a trad., إِِيَّاكُمْ وَالقُعُودَ بِالصُّعُدَاتِ إِِلَّامَنْ أَدَّى حَقَّهَا, i. e. Beware ye of sitting in, or by, the roads, save he who performs the duty relating thereto: [respecting which duty see طَرِيقٌ:] صُعُدَات is here the pl. of صُعُدٌ, which is pl. of صَعِيدٌ: or, as some say, it is pl. of ↓ صُعْدَةٌ , which signifies A court, or an open space, before the door of a house, and the place through which men pass in front of it. (L.) ― -b4- Also A grave. (AA, Mtr, L, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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