Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

سُودَانِيَّةٌ

Root: سود

Full Definition

سُودَانِيَّةٌ , or سَوْدَانِيَّةٌ, and سَوْدَانَةٌ , or سُودَانَةٌ, with damm, like the first, and سَوَادِيَّةٌ and أَسْوَدُ all signify the same; A certain bird, that eats grapes: or i. q. عُصْفُورٌ [i. e. the sparrow; or a bird of the passerine kind]: or a certain small bird, having a long tail, resembling the عصفور, sometimes called also العُصْفُورُ , of such a size that it may be grasped in the hand, that eats grapes and dates and locusts.


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