سَنَدٌ
Root: سند
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سَنَدٌ
The part that faces one, of a mountain, and rises from (عَن) the
سَفْح [i. e. base, or foot]; the acclivity, or rising part, in the face, or front, [or side,] of a mountain or a valley: or a rising, or an elevated, portion of ground: pl. أَسْنَادٌ, [properly a pl. of pauc., but] the only pl. form.
2 A thing, such as a wall &c., against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself: and and مُسْنَدٌ [the latter in the TA said to be with fet-h, but this is evidently a mistake, occasioned by a copyist's writing ويفتح for ويضمّ,] signify [the same,] a thing against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself; [and the former of these two particularly signifies a cushion, or pillow, and more particularly a large cushion or pillow, against which one leans; as expl. by Golius on the authority of Meyd;] pl. مَسَانِدُ.
3 Applied to a man, i. q. مُعْتَمَدٌ [meaning
4 See also مُسْنَدٌ.
def.2 Also A sort of garment of the kind called بُرُود, of the fabric of ElYemen: pl. أَسْنَادٌ: or the pl. is like the sing.: one says أَثْوَابٌ سَنَدٌ [meaning garments of the kind called سَنَد]: Ibn-Buzurj says that السَّنَدُ means الأَسْنَادُ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ, i. e. garments of those called بُرُود: and he cites, from a poet, the phrase جُبَّةُ أَسْنَادٍ, which, he says, means a red jubbeh of those [made] of what are called بُرُود. Accord. to Lth, it signifies A sort of clothing, [consisting of] a shirt with a shirt over it: and in like manner, short shirts made of pieces of cloth, one whereof is concealed beneath another: whatever appears (كُلُّ مَا ظَهَرَ) thereof is termed سِمْطٌ [q. v.]: [this app. explains the meaning of what here follows:] السَّنَدُ is [a term used in the case of] thy wearing a long shirt beneath a shirt shorter than it.
2 A thing, such as a wall &c., against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself: and and مُسْنَدٌ [the latter in the TA said to be with fet-h, but this is evidently a mistake, occasioned by a copyist's writing ويفتح for ويضمّ,] signify [the same,] a thing against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself; [and the former of these two particularly signifies a cushion, or pillow, and more particularly a large cushion or pillow, against which one leans; as expl. by Golius on the authority of Meyd;] pl. مَسَانِدُ.
3 Applied to a man, i. q. مُعْتَمَدٌ [meaning
4 See also مُسْنَدٌ.
def.2 Also A sort of garment of the kind called بُرُود, of the fabric of ElYemen: pl. أَسْنَادٌ: or the pl. is like the sing.: one says أَثْوَابٌ سَنَدٌ [meaning garments of the kind called سَنَد]: Ibn-Buzurj says that السَّنَدُ means الأَسْنَادُ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ, i. e. garments of those called بُرُود: and he cites, from a poet, the phrase جُبَّةُ أَسْنَادٍ, which, he says, means a red jubbeh of those [made] of what are called بُرُود. Accord. to Lth, it signifies A sort of clothing, [consisting of] a shirt with a shirt over it: and in like manner, short shirts made of pieces of cloth, one whereof is concealed beneath another: whatever appears (كُلُّ مَا ظَهَرَ) thereof is termed سِمْطٌ [q. v.]: [this app. explains the meaning of what here follows:] السَّنَدُ is [a term used in the case of] thy wearing a long shirt beneath a shirt shorter than it.
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