سُعْدٌ
Root: سعد
Full Definition
سُعْدٌ
and
سُعَادَى
A certain kind of perfume, well known: or the former is pl. of
سُعْدَةٌ , [or rather a coll. gen. n. of which سُعْدَةٌ is the n. un.,] and this last is [the name of] a certain kind of sweet-smelling root; it is a rhizoma (أَرُومَة), round, black, hard, like a knot; which forms an ingredient in perfumes and medicines: and
سُعَادَى is the name of its plant; and its pl. is سُعَادَيَاتٌ: or the سُعْد is a certain plant having a root (أَصْل) beneath the ground, black, and of sweet odour: and the
سُعَادَى is another plant: [in the present day, the former of these two names (سُعْد) is applied to a species of cyperus: a species thereof is termed by Forskål cyperus
complanatus; and he writes its Arabic name “ sæad ” and “ sææd: ”] it has a wonderful efficacy applied to ulcers, or sores, that heal with difficulty.