سِدَادٌ
Root: سد
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سِدَادٌ
A thing with which an interstice, or intervening space, is closed, or closed up: (AO, M, L: [see also سَدٌّ:]) and a thing with which a breach, or gap, is stopped, or stopped up, or repaired, and made firm or strong: pl. أَسِدَّةٌ. Primarily, accord. to ISh, Somewhat of milk that dries up in the orifice of a she-camel's teat; because it stops up the passage of the milk. Also A stopper of a bottle &c.: in this sense [as well as in those before mentioned] with kesr only [to the س]: and so in the sense next following. A body of horse and foot serving as blockaders of the frontier of a hostile country.
2 سِدَادٌ مِنْ عَوَزٍ and سَدَادٌ , but the former is the more chaste, and it alone is mentioned by most authors in this saying, because it is from سداد as meaning the “ stopper ” of a bottle; and some say that , with fet-h, is a corruption; expressly disallowed by As and ISh; a prov.; meaning
3 See also سَدٌّ, in two places.
2 سِدَادٌ مِنْ عَوَزٍ and سَدَادٌ , but the former is the more chaste, and it alone is mentioned by most authors in this saying, because it is from سداد as meaning the “ stopper ” of a bottle; and some say that , with fet-h, is a corruption; expressly disallowed by As and ISh; a prov.; meaning
3 See also سَدٌّ, in two places.
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