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صَدْعٌ ذ [originally an inf. n.] A cleft, split, slit, or crack, (Lth, S, O, K, TA,) [generally] in a hard thing, (Lth, O, K, TA,) such as a glass vessel, and a wall, and the like of these: pl. صُدُوعٌ. (TA.) Hassán says, satirizing El-Hárith Ibn-'Owf El-Murree, “ وَأَمَانَةُ المُرِّىِّ حَيْثُ لَقِيتَهُ
مِثْلُ الزُّجَاجَةِ صَدْعُهَا لَمْ يُجْبَرِ
” [And the fidelity of the Murree, where (meaning wherever) thou meetest him, is like the glass vessel, of which the crack is not repaired]. (O, TA.) ― -b2- And A part, or portion, separated, of a thing, (O, K, TA,) of sheep or goats, and the like: (TA:) an inf. n. used as a subst. [properly thus termed]: (O, K, TA:) like خَلْقٌ in the sense of مَخْلُوقٌ, &c. (O, TA.) ― -b3- And The plants of the earth; (K;) because they cleave it: (TA:) [i. e.] the plants from over which the earth cleaves: so in the phrase وَا@لأَرْضِ ذَاتِ ا@لصَّدْعِ, in the Kur lxxxvi. 12: (Bd:) or this phrase means And the earth which is cloven by the plants (Th, Bd, TA) and by the springs. (Bd.) -A2- And i. q. إِِلْبٌ: (TA:) you say, النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِمْ صَدْعٌ وَاحِد, (K, TA,) and إِِلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ [or أَلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ], (TA,) The people are one company combined in hostility against them: (K, TA:) and in like manner وَعْلٌ واحد and ضِلَعٌ واحد: so says AZ. (TA.) -A3- And A man light of flesh; and so ↓ صَدَعٌ , (S, K,) sometimes: (S:) or of middling stature, light of flesh: (Ks, TA:) like the mountain-goat thus termed. (TA.) ― -b2- See also صَدَعٌ.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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