صَدِيعٌ
Root: صدع
Full Definition
صَدِيعٌ
Either half of a garment, or piece of cloth, that is slit in halves: and a thing [شَىْءٌ accord. to the copies of the K, but I think that the right reading is شَىْءٍ i. e. “ of a thing, ”] that is cloven, or split, or slit, in halves: pl. صُدُعٌ. See also صِدْعَةٌ, first sentence. It is also said to signify A [garment of the kind called] رِدَآء, that is slit in halves. And A new patch in an old and worn-out garment. And A garment much rent. And A black garment which a wailing woman wears with a white garment beneath it, and which she rends at her bosom so that the white one appears: so says Kásim Ibn-Thábit. And A garment that is worn beneath the coat of mail. And A shirt [of a middling size] between two shirts, neither large nor small.
2 See also صِدْعَةٌ, second and third sentences, in three places.
3 Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, applied to a mountain-goat, it signifies Youthful: and of middling size; syn. مَرْبُوعُ الخَلْقِ; i. e. between two [in size]; like صَدَعٌ [q. v.].
def.2 Also
def.3 And Fresh milk which is put in a place, and becomes cool, and overspread by a thin skin: so called because you skim off (تَصْدَعُ, lit. “ cleave, ”) that thin skin from the clear milk.
2 See also صِدْعَةٌ, second and third sentences, in three places.
3 Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, applied to a mountain-goat, it signifies Youthful: and of middling size; syn. مَرْبُوعُ الخَلْقِ; i. e. between two [in size]; like صَدَعٌ [q. v.].
def.2 Also
def.3 And Fresh milk which is put in a place, and becomes cool, and overspread by a thin skin: so called because you skim off (تَصْدَعُ, lit. “ cleave, ”) that thin skin from the clear milk.
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