اسوّد
Root: سود
Form: 9
Full Definition
اسوّدIX
, Verbal.Noun اِسْوِدَادٌ; and
اسوادّ , Verbal.Noun اِسوِيدَادٌ; and in poetry it is allowable to say
اِسْوَأَدَّ , to avoid the concurrence of two quiescent letters; imperative [of ↓ the second] اِسْوَادِدْ, and the last two letters in this may be incorporated together [so that you may say اِسْوَادّ]; said of a thing; and
, said of a man, and of a thing, Present.T يَسْوَدُ; and
سَادَ , first pers. سُدْتُ, a form used by some; It, and he, became
أَسْوَد [i. e. black]: and
اسوادّ
it, or he, became intensely so. Nuseyb says,
2 [Hence,] اسودّ وَجْهُهُ [lit. His face became black: meaning]
[I am black, and am not master of my person; but beneath it, or within it, is a shirt like the cloth of Koohistán, the gores of which are white: by this قميص he means his heart; القَمِيصُ, or قَمِيصُ القَلْبِ, tropically meaning “ the pericardium; ” and, by a synecdoche, “ the heart itself, with its appertenances ”].فَلَمْ أَمْلِكْ سَوَادِى وَتَحْتَهُ قَمِيصٌ مِنَ القُوهِىِّ بِيضٌ بَنَائِقُهْ
2 [Hence,] اسودّ وَجْهُهُ [lit. His face became black: meaning]
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