صُدْغٌ
Root: صدغ
Full Definition
صُدْغٌ
[The temple; i. e.] the part between the eye and the ear; the part between the outer angle of the eye and the root (أَصْل) of the ear; the part of the head that slopes down to the place of attachment of the jaws; as expl. by AZ, it is [from] the place of juncture between the
لحية [app. a mistranscription for لَحْى i. e. jaw, agreeably with the explanation next preceding,] and [the main portion of] the head, to the part beneath the
قَرْن [which is the temporal ridge]; each of what are termed the
صُدْغَانِ: ISd mentions also
, as occurring in poetry, and expresses a doubt whether it be, or be not, peculiar to poetry: and sometimes they said سُدْغٌ, with س: Ktr says that certain persons of the Benoo-Temeem, called Bel'ambar [a contraction of Benu-l-'Ambar], change س into ص [or use these two letters indiscriminately] when followed by any of the letters ط and ق and غ and خ, whether the latter be second or third or fourth; saying سِرَاطٌ and صِرَاطٌ, and بَسْطَةٌ and بَصْطَةٌ, and سَيْقَلٌ and صَيْقَلٌ, &c.: the pl. is أَصْدَاغٌ and also أَصْدُغٌ [which is probably used only as a pl. of pauc.].
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