سوّدهُ

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سوّدهُII , [Verbal.Noun تَسْوِيدٌ,] His people made him a سَيِّد [i. e. chief, lord, &c.; generally meaning over them]. It is said in a trad. of 'Omar, تَفَقَّهُوا قَبْلَ أَنْ تُسَوَّدُوا, or [for تَتَسَوَّدُوا], meaning Learn ye knowledge, or science, before ye be [made] chiefs, looked at; for if ye learn not before that, ye will be ashamed to learn after becoming advanced in age, or attaining to full growth, (بَعْدَ الكِبَرِ,) and so will remain ignorant, taking it [i. e. knowledge] from the younger ones, and that will lower your estima- tion: or the meaning is, before ye be married, and become masters of houses, or tents, and be diverted by the marriage-state from [the acquisition of] knowledge, or science. [See also 5.]
2 سوّد also signifies He slew: or [the Verbal.Noun] تَسْوِيدٌ signifies the slaying of سَادَة [i. e. chiefs, lords, &c., pl. of سَيِّدٌ].
3 [And accord. to the K, تَسْوِيدٌ is also syn. with جُرْأَةٌ The being bold, daring, brave, or courageous: but accord. to the O, سَوَّدَ signifies خَرِئَ He voided his excrement, or ordure; as though from what next follows: which of these two explanations is right I find no ex. to indicate.]

def.2 سَوَّدْتُهُ, or سوّدته بِالسَّوَادِ, Verbal.Noun تَسْوِيدٌ, I blackened it; made it, or rendered it, أَسْوَد [i. e. black]; I changed its بَيَاض [or whiteness] to سَوَاد [or blackness].
2 [Hence, سوّد وَجْهَهُ lit. He, or it, blackened his face: meaning rendered his face expressive of sorrow, or displeasure; or grieved, or displeased, him: and also, disgraced him: see the contr. بَيَّضَ: and see also 9.
3 Hence also سوّد meaning He wrote anything in a rough manner, as one writes the first draught, or original copy, of a book or the like; contr. of بَيَّضَ in this sense also: probably post-classical.]
4 And سّود الإِبِلَ, Verbal.Noun تَسْوِيدٌ, He beat, or pounded, old worn-out hair-cloth, and applied it as a remedy to the galls, or sores, on the backs of the camels.
5 And سَوِّدُوا ضَيْفَكُمْ Feed ye your guest with something to allay the craving of his stomach before the morning-meal (الغَدَآء). (ElUmawee, TA in art. لهج.)

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