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صَعِيدٌ

Root: صعد

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صَعِيدٌ High, or elevated, land or ground: or high, or elevated, land or ground, above such as is low, or depressed: or even land or ground: or even land or ground, without any trees: or a [desert such as is termed] صَحْرَآء: or the surface of the earth; whether it be dust or earth, or otherwise: Zj says, I know not any difference of opinion among the lexicologists on this point: [such is said to be its meaning in the Kur iv. 46 and v. 9; and therefore in performing the act termed التَّيَمَّم,] a man should strike his hands upon the surface of the earth, and not care whether there be in chat place dust or not: [hence] one says, طَارَ صِيتُكَ فِى القَرِيبِ وَالبَعِيدِ وَبَلَغَ مُنْتَهَى الصَّعِيدِ [Thy fame has flown through the near and the distant regions, and reached the extremity of the surface of the earth]: or صَعِيدٌ signifies the earth, or ground, itself; as in the saying عَلَيْكَ بِالصَّعِيدِ, meaning Sit thou upon the earth, or ground: or good earth or land: or earth, or land, not mixed with sand nor with salt soil: or dust, or earth, such as is pure, upon the surface of the ground or that has come forth from within it; thus accord. to Az in the Kur iv. 46 and v. 9, in the opinion of most of the learned: or only earth containing dust; not applied to a coarse, nor to a fine, بَطْحَآء; nor to a coarse كَثِيب; although it be mixed with dust: pl. صُعُدٌ and صُعُدَاتٌ, the latter a pl. pl.
2 And A wide, or an ample, place.
3 And A road, whether wide or narrow: pls. as above and صُعْدَانٌ. It is said in a trad., إِيَّاكُمْ وَالقُعُودَ بِالصُّعُدَاتِ إِلَّامَنْ أَدَّى حَقَّهَا, i. e. Beware ye of sitting in, or by, the roads, save he who performs the duty relating thereto: [respecting which duty see طَرِيقٌ:] صُعُدَات is here the pl. of صُعُدٌ, which is pl. of صَعِيدٌ: or, as some say, it is pl. of صُعْدَةٌ , which signifies A court, or an open space, before the door of a house, and the place through which men pass in front of it.
4 Also A grave.
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