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صُرَدٌ ذ A certain bird, (S, M, K,) above the size of the sparrow, (M,) having a large head, (K,) which preys upon sparrows: (T, K:) a certain bird, black and white, or party-coloured, (أَبْقَعُ,) with a white belly: (A:) a certain bird of the crow-kind, also called الوَاقِى: (Msb:) the Arabs used to regard its cry, (L, Msb,) and the bird itself, (L,) as of evil omen, (L, Msb,) and used to kill it; and they are forbidden to kill it, in order to dispel the idea of a thing's being of evil omen: (Msb:) there are two species thereof; one species is called by the people of El-'Irák العَقْعَقُ [a name now applied to the magpie, corvus pica]; the other species, called الصُّرَدُ الهَمْهَامُ, [so in the L, but in my copy of the Msb الهيام,] is the wild sort, which is found in Nejd, upon the trees called عِضَاه; it is never seen but upon the ground, [so in the L, but in my copy of the Msb, it is never seen upon the ground,] springing from tree to tree: (Sukeyn En-Numeyree, L, Msb:) when chased, and hard pressed, it is overtaken, and utters a cry like that of the hawk: it preys upon sparrows: (Msb:) it is described by AHát as a bird black and white, or party-coloured, (أَبْقَعُ,) with a white belly, and a back of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour (أَخْضَر), [or, as is said in the L, half white and half black, found in trees,] large in the head and beak, having a talon with which it preys upon sparrows and other small birds, as large as the point of a spear: (Mgh, Msb:) some add to this that it is called المُجَوَّفُ, because of the whiteness of its belly; and الأَخْطَبُ, because of the dark, or ashy, dust-colour of its back; and الأَخْيَلُ [a name now applied to the green woodpecker, picus viridis], because of its diversity of colour; that it is never seen but upon a branch (فِى شُعْبَةٍ, and so in the L,) or a tree, (Mgh, Msb,) and can scarcely ever, or never, be taken, (Msb,) or can never be taken: (Mgh, L:) it is regarded as of evil omen: (Mgh:) Sgh says that it is called سُمَيْطٌ, [perhaps a mistranscription for شُمَيْطٌ, because black and white,] in the dim. form: (Msb:) [it is said that] it was the first bird that fasted for the sake of God: (K:) the pl. is صِرْدَانٌ: (S, M, Msb, K:) and the female is called صُرَدَةٌ. (Msb.) ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A white place, (S, M, L, K,) produced by galls, (S, L, K,) or by the saddle; (M;) or صُرَدَةٌ signifies a white place produced by hair growing in the place of a gall; likened to the colour of the bird thus called: (A:) pl. صِرْدَانٌ. (M, A.) And (assumed tropical:) A white place on the hump of a camel: (M:) or white fur growing in the place of a gall produced by the saddle, after its healing: (AO:) pl. as above. (AO, M.) ― -b3- And (assumed tropical:) A certain vein (As, M) beneath the tongue, (As,) or in the lower part of the tongue, (M,) of the horse. (As, M.) And الصُّرَدَانِ (assumed tropical:) Two veins, (Lth, Ks, S, M, L, K,) of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (أَخْضَرَانِ, Lth, Ks, M, L,) in the lower part of the tongue, by means of which the tongue moves about, (Lth, Ks, L,) or penetrating within (يَسْتَبْطِنَانِ) the tongue: (S, M, K:) or two veins, on the right and left of the tongue: (L:) or, as some say, two bones, which erect (يُقِيمَانِ) the tongue. (M.) Yezeed Ibn-Es- Sa'ik in his saying “ لَهُ صُرَدَانِ مُنْطَلِقَا اللِّسَانِ
” means ذَرِبَانِ [i. e. ذَرِبَا اللِّسَانِ, for ذَرِبٌ لِسَانُهُمَا, as though he said لَهُ لِسَانٌ ذَرِبٌ He has a long, or an unbridled, tongue; the phrase that he uses being pleonastic]. (S.) ― -b4- Also, (M, L,) or ↓ صَرْدٌ , (so in the K,) and ↓ صَرَدٌ , which is the more known, (TA,) A nail in a spear-head, (M, L, K,) by means of which the shaft is fastened to it. (L, K. *) ― -b5- Accord. to Sh, فَتَّحَ صُرَدَهُ means He opened his mind, so as to reveal his secrets. (TA. [But this is perhaps a mistranscription, for فتح صُرَرَهُ: see صُرَّةٌ.])
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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