صَيْدَانٌ

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صَيْدَانٌ Copper: (L, K: see also صَادٌ:) and gold: [but this seems to be taken from the following passage in the T:] in the stone-cookingpot (البُرْمَة) there is sometimes [what is termed] صَيْدَانٌ and صَيْدَآءُ , in which is an appearance like the glistening of gold and silver; and the best is that which is like gold: so says AA. See also art. صدن.
2 And Stone cookingpots: (S, L, K; and M in art. صدن:) a coll. gen. n.: n. un. with ة.
3 See also صَيْدَآءُ.
4 صَيْدَانُ الحَصَى Small pebbles. (L. [See also art صدن.])

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