Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

صَيَّادٌ

Root: صيد

Full Definition

صَيَّادٌ [A man accustomed to, or in the habit of, taking, capturing, catching, snaring, or trapping, game, i. e. any kind of wild animals, or the like, fowl, &c., or fish; a sportsman; a hunter, a fowler, or a fisherman: see 1, second sentence]: and صَيُودٌ signifies the same as صَيَّادٌ: you say كَلْبٌ صَيُودٌ [A dog used for hunting]: and صَقْرٌ صَيُودٌ [A hawk used for catching game]: and the same epithet is applied to a female: its pl. is صُيُدٌ and صِيدٌ; the latter of the dial. of those, namely, the tribe of Temeem, who say رُسْلٌ [for رُسُلٌ]; the ص being with kesr in order that the ى may be preserved unchanged.
2 See also أَصْيَدُ, last sentence.


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