دَدَانٌ

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دَدَانٌ , applied to a sword, Blunt; that will not penetrate into the thing struck with it: and also sharp: thus bearing two contr. significations: or, accord. to Th, a sword with which trees are cut; called by others مِعْضَدٌ; and this is not necessarily the contr. of a blunt sword.
2 Also, applied to a man, [perhaps from the first of the significations mentioned above,] meaning لَاغَنَآءَ عِنْدَهُ [Not having, or not possessing, what suffices; or not profitable to any one].

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