صَدَرٌ

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صَدَرٌ a subst. signifying Return, from (عَنْ) water, and a country, or a place, and any affair: as some say, from anything. Hence, طَوَافُ الصَّدَرِ, (K, TA, in the CK الصَّدْرِ,) i. e. The compassing of the Kaabeh on the occasion of the return of the pilgrims from ' Arafát. [Hence also,] الصَّدَرُ The fourth day of the days of the sacrifice [performed by the pilgrims]: so called because the people then return from Mekkeh to their abodes. [And hence the saying,] تَرَكْتُهُ عَلَى مِثْلِ لَيْلَةِ الصَّدَرِ I left him as in the night preceding the fourth day of the days of the sacrifice: or [as in the night preceding the day] when the people return from their pilgrimage; meaning, possessing nothing.

def.2 Also quasi-pl. n. of صَادِرٌ, q. v.

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