سود

سَادَ

To be or become a chief, lord, master, or person of glory and eminence; to rule or hold dominion.

The basic Form I verbal usage, including being the chief of one's people and exercising authority over another.

• Lane · entry 42619

سَادَ

To leave other camels or beasts behind.

A figurative Form I usage said of a she-camel surpassing the other riding animals.

• Lane · entry 42619

سَادَ

To cause or contract a disease called السُّوَاد.

A specialized health usage: of water, to cause the disease; of a person or animal, to be afflicted by it.

• Lane · entry 42619

سَوَّدَ

To make someone a chief or master.

Form II causative usage, especially of a people appointing or treating someone as their leader.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ

To slay; specifically, to slay chiefs or nobles.

A specialized Form II usage and verbal noun referring to the killing of leaders.

• Lane · entry 42620

تَسْوِيد

Boldness, daring, or courage.

A reported lexical interpretation of the Form II verbal noun.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ

To void excrement.

A separately reported Form II lexical interpretation; the source records disagreement over this sense and the sense of boldness.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ

To blacken something or change its whiteness to blackness.

Transitive Form II color-change usage.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ الوَجْهَ

To make a face expressive of grief or displeasure; by extension, to grieve, displease, or disgrace someone.

A figurative extension of literal blackening, opposed to making the face white.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ

To write a rough first draft or original copy.

A usage described as probably post-classical and contrasted with fair-copying.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوَّدَ الإِبِلَ

To apply beaten, worn hair-cloth as a remedy to sores or galls on camels.

A specialized, figurative Form II expression.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَوِّدُوا ضَيْفَكُمْ

To feed a guest something that allays hunger before the morning meal.

A conventional idiomatic expression.

• Lane · entry 42620

سَاوَدَ

To vie or contend with another for superiority, including superiority in rank or in blackness.

Form III reciprocal usage; the object of comparison may be social eminence or color.

• Lane · entry 42621

سَاوَدَ

To meet someone in the blackness of night.

A Form III construction using blackness as the setting of the meeting.

• Lane · entry 42621

سَاوَدَ

To speak secretly with someone.

The expression is explained through bringing one's person close to the other person's; the verbal nouns include سِوَاد and مُسَاوَدَة.

• Lane · entry 42621

السِّوَاد

To entice toward sexual intercourse, or sexual intercourse itself.

A reported interpretation of the expression قُرْبُ الوِسَادِ وَطُولُ السِّوَادِ; it is distinct from the ordinary sense of secret speech.

• Lane · entry 42621

سَاوَدَ

To act deceitfully or guilefully; to entice or turn someone by blandishment or deceptive arts.

A figurative Form III usage.

• Lane · entry 42621

سَاوَدَ

To drive away a lion.

A specialized figurative usage reported of the Form III verb.

• Lane · entry 42621

سَاوَدَتِ الإِبِلُ

Of camels, to labor at short or scant herbage with their lips without being able to master it.

A specialized usage said of camels working at insufficient vegetation.

• Lane · entry 42621

أَسَادَ

To beget or have born to one a black child, or a child who will be a chief.

Form IV usage with reported alternatives concerning color and status.

• Lane · entry 42622

تَسَوَّدَ

To become married and master of a house or tent.

Form V reflexive/inchoative usage linking marriage with household authority.

• Lane · entry 42623

اِسْتَوَدَ

To slay or take captive a chief or noble person.

Reported Form VIII usages of the expression اِسْتَادُوا بَنِي فُلَانٍ.

• Lane · entry 42624

اِسْتَوَدَ

To seek marriage with, or marry among, noble or chief women.

Form VIII usage with a person or group as the source of the sought marriage alliance.

• Lane · entry 42624

سَوْدٌ

A rough, black or black-stone tract at the foot or base of a mountain.

A landscape noun for a narrow strip or portion of ground, often associated with a mountain containing a mine.

• Lane · entry 42628

سَوْدَةٌ

Land in which palm trees grow.

A specialized landscape usage opposed to بَيْضَةٌ, according to the cited lexical tradition.

• Lane · entry 42632

سُودَدٌ

Chiefdom, lordship, mastery, glory, honor, dignity, eminence, or nobility.

A noun derived from سَادَ and synonymous with the corresponding verbal nouns of leadership.

• Lane · entry 42633

سُودَانِيَّةٌ / سُوَيْدَاءُ

A small bird, especially a grape- and date-eating passerine bird with a long tail.

A specialized bird name with variant forms; the cited descriptions differ in how narrowly the bird is identified.

• Lane · entry 42637
• Lane · entry 42646

سَوَادٌ

Blackness; the color opposed to whiteness.

The ordinary noun of color, also used for the blackness of night or of particular parts of an animal.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادُ القَلْبِ

The heart's core, inner part, heart's blood, or central clot.

A bodily and figurative expression for the innermost part of the heart or the innermost place of affection.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادُ البَطْنِ

The liver.

A specialized anatomical expression.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادٌ

A visible person, bodily form, or object seen from a distance.

The extension is explained by the dark appearance of a distant form; it applies to people and other things.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادٌ / أَسَاوِدُ

Household goods, utensils, baggage, equipment, or the collective matériel of an army.

An extension from a collection of visible bodily forms to the equipment and train gathered together.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادٌ

Property, cattle, or a large amount of possessions.

A collective-property usage, sometimes specifically meaning much property or livestock.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادٌ

A collection, company, collective body, commonalty, majority, or great number.

It may denote a group of people, the general body of a community, or a large number of things.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادٌ

A collection of palm trees or other trees.

A figurative usage based on the dark or green appearance of dense vegetation.

• Lane · entry 42638

سَوَادُ العِرَاقِ

The cultivated rural district surrounding towns and villages; especially the agricultural district of Iraq.

A regional landscape term for cultivated land and its settlements, named from the dark or green appearance of its trees and produce.

• Lane · entry 42638

سُوَادٌ

Secret speech with another.

A noun associated with سَاوَدَ; the lexicographical tradition distinguishes its vocalization and derivational analysis from سِوَادٌ.

• Lane · entry 42639

سُوَادٌ

A disease affecting sheep or goats, or a human disease involving the liver; also a discoloration associated with drinking salt water.

A specialized medical and veterinary noun with several reported manifestations, including complexion and nail changes.

• Lane · entry 42639

سَيِّدٌ

An owner or proprietor, including the master or owner of a slave.

A broader possessive or household relation than the Quranic uses of noble person, husband, and leaders.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

A person distinguished by generosity, clemency, forbearance, self-restraint, piety, or useful excellence.

These are character-based extensions of the status term and are not limited to formal political leadership.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

A descendant of the Prophet, in a later specialized usage.

A present-day application recorded as distinct from the older general senses of chief, master, and noble person.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

A chief of the jinn or of another nonhuman group.

A poetic or reported application of the leadership noun to jinn.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

The male leader or dominant one of a female wild-ass group.

A specialized zoological application of the leadership term.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

A mature or large he-goat.

The term is reported with differing age specifications, including the third year, and can also be applied to camels and cattle.

• Lane · entry 42640

سَيِّدٌ

The most eminent, exalted, or noble example of a thing; a paragon.

An extension from a person of eminence to any thing of outstanding rank, including the expression “paragon of speech.”

• Lane · entry 42640

سُوَيْدٌ

Water.

A substantive or epithet, reported especially in negative phrases such as “not a drop of water.”

• Lane · entry 42642

أُمُّ سُوَيْدٍ

The anus.

A fixed anatomical expression.

• Lane · entry 42642

سُوَادِيٌّ

A well-known variety of dates.

A regional food term associated with the Sawād of Iraq and Basrah.

• Lane · entry 42644

سُوَيْدَاءُ

Salt tracts containing or associated with a grass or plant of the najīl kind.

A specialized landscape and botanical usage.

• Lane · entry 42646

أَسْوَدُ

Greater or greatest in rank, estimation, dignity, generosity, or clemency.

An anomalous comparative or superlative usage distinct from the ordinary color adjective.

• Lane · entry 42648

أَسْوَدُ

Green or greenish when its appearance from a distance resembles blackness.

A conventional color extension explicitly based on the visual resemblance of green to black at a distance.

• Lane · entry 42648

السُّودَانُ

Black people or a people characterized by blackness; by extension, the land of such people.

A plural or substantivized use of the color adjective, including the regional designation بلاد السودان.

• Lane · entry 42648

السَّوْدَاءُ

Black bile, one of the four bodily humors.

A technical medical substantive.

• Lane · entry 42648

أَسْوَدُ

The Arab race, in a contrastive classification opposed to أَحْمَرُ; according to some, the black race in that contrast.

A reported ethnological use with disagreement over the referent.

• Lane · entry 42648

أَسْوَدُ

A great, black, highly dangerous serpent.

When substantivized, the word denotes a particular venomous serpent rather than merely a black-colored animal.

• Lane · entry 42648

الأَسْوَدَانِ

The serpent and the scorpion.

A conventional dual expression named through predominance of the serpent's blackness.

• Lane · entry 42648

الأَسْوَدَانِ

Dates and water; in alternative reports, water and milk or water and a food plant.

A conventional dual expression whose members and interpretation vary among authorities.

• Lane · entry 42648

الأَسْوَدَانِ

A black stony tract and the night.

An alternative interpretation of the same dual expression, based on the blackness of both things.

• Lane · entry 42648

أَسْوَدُ الكَبِدِ

An enemy, literally “black-livered.”

A figurative fixed expression; its plural denotes enemies.

• Lane · entry 42648

سُودُ البُطُونِ

Lean or emaciated sheep or goats.

A figurative expression describing their condition, not a literal color classification.

• Lane · entry 42648

السَّهْمُ الأَسْوَدُ

A lucky arrow, especially one smeared with blood or regarded as a successful divining arrow.

A conventional figurative expression associated with striking its target and seeking good fortune.

• Lane · entry 42648

سَوْدَاءُ وَلَا بَيْضَاءُ

A bad word or a good word; by extension, a single word of any kind.

A fixed expression in which black and white stand for opposed kinds of speech.

• Lane · entry 42648

وَطْأَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ

A footprint or footstep that is becoming effaced.

A conventional contrast with a fresh footprint called حَمْرَاءُ.

• Lane · entry 42648

السَّوْدَاءُ

Cultivated or planted land.

A figurative landscape term opposed to uncultivated or “white” land.

• Lane · entry 42648

سَنَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ

A very severe year, marked by hardship or scarcity.

A conventional scale of severe years in which black denotes a severity greater than the terms contrasted with it.

• Lane · entry 42648

الحَبَّةُ السَّوْدَاءُ

The black seed, identified especially with شُونِيز, nigella.

A traditional medicinal designation; some authorities alternatively interpret it as a green herb because black and green can overlap in this lexicon.

• Lane · entry 42648

أَسْوَدُ

Exceedingly or intensely black.

An anomalous emphatic epithet, as in “blacker than the blackness of the raven.”

• Lane · entry 42648

أُسَيْدِيٌّ

Blackish or approaching black in color.

A relational adjective formed from a diminutive of أَسْوَدُ.

• Lane · entry 42652

مِسَادٌ

A skin or hide used for clarified butter or honey.

A specialized vessel or container term.

• Lane · entry 42654

مَسُودٌ

One over whom rule or dominion is exercised; a subject of a master.

A passive relational adjective associated with سَيِّد.

• Lane · entry 42655

مُسْوِدَةٌ

A woman who gives birth to black children.

The feminine active participle of the Form IV usage أَسَادَ / أَسْوَدَ.

• Lane · entry 42656

مَاءٌ مَسْوَدَةٌ

Water that causes the disease called السُّوَاد in those who drink it.

A specialized attributive construction concerning harmful water.

• Lane · entry 42657

مُسَوَّدَةٌ

A rough first draft or original copy of a book.

A usage explicitly described as probably post-classical and contrasted with a fair copy.

• Lane · entry 42658

مُسَوَّدٌ

Guts containing blood drawn from a bound she-camel, roasted and eaten.

A specialized culinary-anatomical noun.

• Lane · entry 42659

المُسَوِّدَةُ

The partisans of the Abbasid dynasty.

A historical collective designation based on their wearing black clothing.

• Lane · entry 42660