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7 انصدع ذ [generally said of a hard thing, such as a glass vessel, and a wall, and the like of these, (see 1, first sentence,)] It became cloven, split, slit, or cracked; or, in an intrans. sense, it clave, split, slit, or cracked; syn. اِنْشَقَّ: (S, Msb, K:) [or so as to become divided in halves: or so that it did not separate: (see again 1, first sentence:)] as also ↓ تصدّع [but app. in an intensive sense, meaning it became cloven &c., or it clave &c., much, or in several places]. (O, K.) One says, البَيْضَةُ وَلَمْ تَتَفَلَّقْ ↓ تَصَدَّعَتِ [The egg cracked, or rather cracked in several places, but did not split apart]. (AZ, S in art. قيض.) And ↓ تصدّع الثَّوْبُ The garment, or piece of cloth, became slit or rent, or much slit or rent; i. q. اِنْصَاحَ. (Msb in art. صيح.) And انصدعت الأَرْضُ بِالنَّبَاتِ The earth clave with, or became cloven by, the plants, or herbage; as also ↓ تصدّعت . (TA.) And انصدع الصُّبْحُ (assumed tropical:) The dawn broke; like انفجر, and انفلق, and انفطر. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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