صَاعٌ
Root: صوع
Full Definition
صَاعٌ
and
and
صَوْعٌ and
صُوَاعٌ and
, thus accord. to five different readers of the Kur in xii. 72, A certain measure used for measuring corn and upon which turn [or depend] the decisions of the Muslims [relating to measures of capacity]: or the صاع is different from the
; the latter being a certain vessel, in [or from] which one drinks [as will be expl. hereafter in this paragraph]: the former is four
أَمْدَاد [pl. of مُدٌّ]; i. e. five
أَرْطَال [or pints] and a third, by the measure of Baghdád; the مُدّ being a pint and a third: so with the people of El-Hijáz, [i. e.] so with the people of the Harameyn, as was proved by a number of specimens of the صاع used in dealings with the Prophet, and so accord. to Esh-Sháfi'ee: but with the people of El-' Irák it was eight pints, with whom agreed Aboo-Haneefeh; the مُدّ with them being two pints; but the addition was made by El-Hajjáj; and their صاع was the قَفِيز حَجَّاجِىّ, and was unknown to the people of El-Medeeneh, as is said by Az: accord. to Ed-Dáwoodee, its invariable measure is four times the quantity [of corn & c.] that fills the two hands, that are neither large nor small, of a man; for the صاع of the Prophet is not found in every place; and this I have tried, and found to be correct: the word is masc. and fem.: accord. to Fr, the people of El-Hijáz make it fem.; and Benoo-Asad, except some of them, make it masc., as do the people of Nejd; and Zj says that the more chaste way is to make it masc.: the pl. is أَصْوُعٌ, for which one may say أَصْؤُعٌ, changing the و into hemzeh, and accord. to AAF some say آصُعٌ, like آدُرٌ, a pl. of دَارٌ, but AHát says that this is a vulgar mistake, and أَصْوَاعٌ, which is used by those who make the sing. masc., and [of mult.] صُوعٌ, which is app. pl. of
, with kesr, and صِيعَانٌ, which is [likewise] a pl. of mult., or this last is pl. of
صُوَاعٌ : and this sing. signifies a [vessel of the kind called] جَام, [app. here used in the sense which this word commonly has in Pers., i. e. as meaning a cup,] in which, or from which, one drinks: Sa'eed Ibn-Jubeyr says that the صواع of the king [mentioned in the Kur xii. 72] was the Persian
مَكُّوك, of which the two extremities [are compressed so that they] meet together [app. in such a manner that the whole vessel resembles a small boat, the word مكّوك being expl. in several dictionaries as applied to a drinking-vessel of this form, probably from the Pers. مَكُّوكْ signifying “ a shuttle ” and used in this sense in modern Arabic]: El-Hasan says that the
صُوَاع
and the
سِقَايَة
are one thing, as Zj also says; and that the صواع of the king is said to have been of وَرِق [meaning silver], and that they used to measure with it and sometimes they drank with it: Zj says that it is explained as an oblong vessel, resembling the
مَكُّوك, with which the king used to drink; and said by some to have been of مِسّ [which (as is said in the TA in art. مس) means copper, from the Pers. مِسْ]. [See also صَوْغٌ, with غ.]
2 صَاعٌ signifies also
3 And
4 And
5 And The place of the breast of the ostrich when she puts it upon the ground: or such a place is called صَاعُ جُؤْجُؤِ النَّعَامِ. And one says, ضَرَبَهُ فِى صَاعِ جُؤُجُؤِهِ and فى صاعِ صَدْرِهِ meaning
def.2 And it is said that] صَاعٌ also signifies The [kind of goffstick called] صَوْلَجَان. In the following verse of El-Museiyab Ibn-' Alas, describing a she-camel,
2 صَاعٌ signifies also
3 And
4 And
5 And The place of the breast of the ostrich when she puts it upon the ground: or such a place is called صَاعُ جُؤْجُؤِ النَّعَامِ. And one says, ضَرَبَهُ فِى صَاعِ جُؤُجُؤِهِ and فى صاعِ صَدْرِهِ meaning
def.2 And it is said that] صَاعٌ also signifies The [kind of goffstick called] صَوْلَجَان. In the following verse of El-Museiyab Ibn-' Alas, describing a she-camel,
[the most obvious meaning of which is, Her fore legs moved briskly for the purpose of hastening, as though she were propelling a ball with the hands of a player in a piece of ground cleared for that exercise,] or, as some relate it, بِكَفَّىْ مَاقِطٍ, meaning with the hands of a player with the ball, it is said by some that he means بِصَاعٍ, [though it is not easy to see why, if so, he did not say بِالصَّاعِ,] and that by the صاع he means the صَوْلَجَان, because it is bent (يُعْطَفُ [see 1, last sentence,]) for the purpose of striking with it, that the ball may be propelled (تُصَاعُ) with it.مَرِحَتْ يَدَاهَا لِلنَّجَآءِ كَأَنَّمَا تَكْرُو بِكَفَّىْ لَاعِبٍ فِى صَاعِ
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