سَاعِدٌ

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سَاعِدٌ The fore arm (ذِرَاع) of a man; the part of the arm from the wrist to the elbow; or from elbow to the hand: so called because it aids the hand in seizing a thing or taking it and in work: or it signifies, or signifies also, the upper arm, or upper half of the arm, from the elbow to the shoulder-blade, syn. عَضُدٌ, [q. v.,] of a man: [and in like manner, of a beast, both the fore shank and the arm:] in some one or more of the dialects, the upper of the زَنْدَانِ [which may mean either the upper arm or the radius]; the ذِرَاع being the lower of them [which may mean either the “ fore arm ” or the “ ulna ”]: of the masc. gender: pl. سَوَاعِدُ. One says, شَدَّ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَى سَاعِدِكَ and سَوَاعِدِكُمْ [May God strengthen thy fore arm and aid thee, and your fore arms and aid you].
2 And hence, [A kind of armlet;] a thing that is worn upon the fore arm, of iron or brass or gold.
3 [Hence also,] سَاعِدَا الطَّائِرِ The two wings of the bird.
4 And السَّوَاعِدُ The anterior, or primary, feathers of the wing: so in the phrase, طَائِرٌ شَدِيدُ السَّوَاعِدِ [A bird strong in the anterior, or primary, feathers of the wing].
5 Also the sing., A chief, upon whom people rely.
6 And the pl., سَوَاعِدُ, The channels in which water runs to a river or small river (نَهْر), or to a sea or large river (بَحْر); the sing. said by AA to be سَاعِدٌ, without ة: or this latter signifies a channel in which water runs to a valley, and to a sea or large river (بَحْر): or the channel in which a large river (بَحْر) runs to small rivers (أَنْهَار). And The places from which issues the water of a well: the channels of the springs thereof.
7 Also The medullary cavities; the ducts through which runs the marrow in a bone.
8 And The ducts in the udder from which the milk comes to the orifice of the teat; as being likened to the سواعد of the بَحْر: the قَصَب of the udder: or سَاعِدٌ signifies the orifice of a she-camel's teat, from which the milk issues: and سَاعِدُ الدَّرِّ, a duct by which the milk descends to the she-camel's udder: and in like manner سَاعِدٌ signifies a duct that conveys the milk to a woman's breast or nipple.
9 أَمْرٌ ذُو سَوَاعِدَ means An affair having several modes, or manners, [in which it may be per- formed,] and several ways of egress therefrom.

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