سَجَدَ
Root: سجد
Form: 1
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سَجَدَI
, [Present.T
ـُ] Verbal.Noun سُجُودٌ, He was, or became, lowly, humble, or submissive; syn. خَضَعَ, or تَطَامَنَ, and ذَلَّ: or he bent him-self down towards the ground: (Aboo-Bekr, TA: [and such is often meant by خَضَعَ and by تَطَامَنَ:]) [or it has both of these significations combined; i. e. he was, or became, lowly, humble, or submissive, bending himself down; for] the primary signification of السُّجُودُ is تَذَلُّلً together with تَطَأْمُنٌ [or تَطَامُنٌ]. And
اسجد
He lowered his head, and bent himself; said of a man; and put his forehead on the ground: and likewise said of a camel; in the latter case tropical; as also سَجَدَ; meaning
2 The سُجُود of prayer is from سَجَدَ in the first of the senses expl. above; and means The [prostrating oneself;] putting the forehead on the ground: سَجَدَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, signifies he put his forehead on the ground: but سُجُود to God denotes a particular manner [of doing this; i. e. the prostrating oneself in prayer by dropping gently upon the knees, placing the palms of the hands on the ground, a little before the place of the knees, and then putting the nose and forehead on the ground, the former first, between the two hands].
3 It is said of Kisrà, in a trad., كَانَ يَسْجُدْ لِلطَّالِع, i. e. He used to lower himself, or bend himself down, to the arrow passing beyond the butt, going over it; which they used to reckon like that which hit the butt; meaning that he used to concede to the shooter thereof: or, accord. to Az, it means that he used to lower his head when his arrow was elevated [too high] above the object shot at, in order that the arrow might be rightly directed, and might hit the circle.
4 And [as salutation is often accompanied with a bending of the body,] سُجُودٌ also signifies
5 You say also, سَجَدَتِ النَّخْلَةُ
6 وَ ٱلنَّجْمُ وَ ٱلشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ, in the Kur [lv. 5], means, accord. to Fr,
def.2 Also He stood erect: so in the dial. of Teiyi. It is said in the K, immediately after the mention of the first signification and this last, that thus the verb has two contr. meanings: but it may be said that there is no [necessary, or absolute,] contrariety between الخُضُوع and الاِنْتِصَاب.
def.3 سَجِدَتْ رِجْلُهُ, Present.T ـَ
2 The سُجُود of prayer is from سَجَدَ in the first of the senses expl. above; and means The [prostrating oneself;] putting the forehead on the ground: سَجَدَ, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, signifies he put his forehead on the ground: but سُجُود to God denotes a particular manner [of doing this; i. e. the prostrating oneself in prayer by dropping gently upon the knees, placing the palms of the hands on the ground, a little before the place of the knees, and then putting the nose and forehead on the ground, the former first, between the two hands].
3 It is said of Kisrà, in a trad., كَانَ يَسْجُدْ لِلطَّالِع, i. e. He used to lower himself, or bend himself down, to the arrow passing beyond the butt, going over it; which they used to reckon like that which hit the butt; meaning that he used to concede to the shooter thereof: or, accord. to Az, it means that he used to lower his head when his arrow was elevated [too high] above the object shot at, in order that the arrow might be rightly directed, and might hit the circle.
4 And [as salutation is often accompanied with a bending of the body,] سُجُودٌ also signifies
5 You say also, سَجَدَتِ النَّخْلَةُ
6 وَ ٱلنَّجْمُ وَ ٱلشَّجَرُ يَسْجُدَانِ, in the Kur [lv. 5], means, accord. to Fr,
def.2 Also He stood erect: so in the dial. of Teiyi. It is said in the K, immediately after the mention of the first signification and this last, that thus the verb has two contr. meanings: but it may be said that there is no [necessary, or absolute,] contrariety between الخُضُوع and الاِنْتِصَاب.
def.3 سَجِدَتْ رِجْلُهُ, Present.T ـَ
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