صَدِيقٌ
Root: صدق
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صَدِيقٌ
A friend: or a true, or sincere, friend: applied likewise to a female, as also صَدِيقَةٌ, the former anomalous, the latter regular; and to a pl. number, as in the Kur xxvi. 101 [and in several other instances, of which see one in a verse cited voce رَوِىٌّ]: its proper pl. is أَصْدِقَآءُ and صُدَقَآءُ and صُدْقَانٌ, the last on the authority of Fr, and أَصَادِقُ, which is a pl. pl., said by IDrd to be anomalous, unless it be a pl. pl.: and the dim. is
صُدَيِّقٌ ; one says, هُوَ صُدَيِّقِى, meaning He is the most special, or most distinguished, of my friends, or of my true, or sincere, friends.
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