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سَدٌّ

Root: سد

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سَدٌّ and سُدٌّ Any building, or construction, with which a place is closed or closed up, or stopped or stopped up: (M: [see also سِدَادٌ:]) a dam: a thing intervening, as a separation, a partition, a fence, a barrier, a rampart, or an obstacle, or obstruction, between two other things; and a mountain: or, as some say, anything that faces one, or is over against one, and bars, or excludes, (يَسُدُّ,) what is behind it: whence goats are said to be سَدٌّ يُرَى مِنْ وَرَائِهِ الفَقْرُ [a barrier behind which is seen poverty]; meaning that they are not of great utility: or سَدٌّ signifies what is made by man; and سُدٌّ, what is created by God, as a mountain: in the Kur xviii. 92 and 93, and xxxvi. 8, some read with fet-h, and some with damm: the pl. is أَسْدَادٌ, [a pl. of pauc.,] or أَسِدَّةٌ, [also a pl. of pauc.,] and سُدُودٌ, [a pl. of mult.,] the latter of these two agreeable with general analogy, and the former of them anomalous, or, [ISd says,] in my opinion, this (أَسِدَّةٌ) is pl. of سِدَادٌ. You say, ضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُمَا سَدٌّ and سُدٌّ [A barrier, or an obstacle, was set between them two]: and ضُرِبَتْ بَيْنَهُمَا الأَسْدَادُ [Barriers, or obstacles, were set between them two]. And ضَرَبَتْ عَلَيْهِ الأَرْضُ بِالأَسْدَادِ [The earth, or land, set barriers, or obstacles, against him]; meaning, the ways became closed, or stopped, against him, and the courses that he should pursue became obscure to him: (K: in the CK ضُرِبَتْ:) the sing. of أَسْدَادٌ [accord. to general analogy] is سُدٌّ.
2 [Hence,] the former (سَدٌّ) also signifies, or سِدَادٌ , or the former and سَدَادَةٌ , A fault, or defect, such as blindness and deafness and dumbness, or such as closes, or stops, one's mouth, so that he does not speak: pl. of the first, or of the second, أَسِدَّةٌ, [a pl. of pauc.,] accord. to analogy سُدُودٌ, or أَسُدٌّ [which is a pl. of pauc.]. You say, مَا بِهِ سِدَادٌ There is not in him any fault &c.: and فُلَانٌ بَرِىْءٌ مِنَ الأَسِدَّةِ Such a one is free from faults &c. And مَا بِفُلَانٍ سَدَادَةٌ تَسُدُّ فَاهُ عَنِ الكَلَامِ There is not in such a one a fault that stops his mouth from speaking. And لَا تَجْعَلَنَّ بِجَنْبِكَ الأَسِدَّةَ By no means render thou thy bosom contracted so that thou shalt be unable to return an answer, like him who is deaf or dumb.
3 See also سُدٌّ.
4 سدّ [so in the TA, i. e. either سَدٌّ or سُدَّ,] also signifies A she-camel by which the sportsman conceals himself from the game; also called دَرِيْئَةٌند دَرِيعَةٌ whence the saying, رَمَاهُ فِى سدِّ نَاقَتِهِ [He shot him, or shot at him, by his she-camel whereby he was concealing himself].
5 And سَدٌّ, or سُدٌّ, is also syn. with ظِلٌّ [as meaning Shade, or shadow; or cover, or protection]. A poet cited by IAar says, قَعَدْتُ لَهُ فِى سَدِّ نِقْضٍ مُعَوَّدٍ لِذٰلِكَ فِى صَحْرَآءَ جِذْمٍ دَرِينُهَا [I sat for him, i. e. lay in wait for him, in the shade, or cover, of a camel rendered lean by travel, accustomed to that, in a desert whereof the dry herbage was old]: i. e. I made him a cover, or screen, to me, in order that he might not see me: and by جِذْم he means “ old, ” because الجِذْمُ signifies الأَصْلُ, and there is nothing older than the أَصْل; and he uses it as an epithet because it implies the meaning of an epithet.

def.2 سَدٌّ also signifies A thing, [i. e.] a [basket such as is called] سَلَّة, made of twigs, and having covers (أَطْبَاق): pl. سِدَادٌ and سُدُودٌ: or, accord. to Lth, سُدُودٌ signifies [baskets such as are called] سِلَال, [pl. of سَلَّةٌ,] made of twigs, and having covers (أَطْبَاق); one of which is called [not سَدٌّ but] سَدَّةٌ : and it is said also on other authority that the سَلَّة is called سَدَّةٌ and طَبْلٌ.
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