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سَدَسَ

Root: سدس

Form: 1

Full Definition

سَدَسَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun سَدْسٌ, He took the sixth part of the possessions of the people.
2 And سَدَسَ القَوْمَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun سَدْسٌ, He was, or became, the sixth of the people: or he made them, with himself, six. (S in art. ثلث.) And He made the people, they being fifty-nine, to be sixty with himself. (A 'Obeyd, S in art. ثلث.) And سَدَسَ also signifies He made fifteen to be sixteen. (T in art. ثلث.)
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