صَمَدٌ

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صَمَدٌ (with the article ال an epithet applied to God, M) A lord; because one repairs, betakes himself, or has recourse, to him in exigencies; or, when applied to God, because affairs are stayed, or rested, upon Him, (أُصْمِدَتْ إِلَيْهِ,) and none but He accomplishes them: or a person to whom one repairs, betakes himself, or has recourse, in exigencies: you say, سَيِّدٌ صَمَدٌ, meaning a lord, or chief, to whom recourse is had: or صَمَدٌ signifies a lord to whom obedience is rendered, without whom no affair is accomplished: or one to whom lordship ultimately pertains: or a lord whose lordship has attained its utmost point or degree; in which sense it is not applicable to God: or the Being that continues, or continues for ever or is everlasting: or the Being that continues, or continues for ever, after his creatures have perished: or the Creator of everything, of whom nothing is independent, and whose unity everything indicates: or one who takes no nourishment, or food: also high, or elevated; applied to anything: a man above whom is no one: a man who neither thirsts nor hungers in war.
2 Also Solid; not hollow; in which sense it may not be applied to God: and so مُصْمَدٌ , a dial. var. of مُصْمَتٌ.
3 And A people having no trade, or occupation, nor anything by means of which they may live.

def.2 See also صَمْدٌ.

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