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اسد

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

أُسْدِىٌّ ذ , with damm, (IB, K,) thus correctly written, (IB,) in the L [and S] أَسْدِىٌّ, (TA,) A kind of garments or cloths (ثِيَابٌ, S, for which is put, in the K, erroneously, نَبَاتٌ, TA): occurring in a poem of El-Hoteiäh, (S,) who likens thereto an extensive, even, waterless desert. (L.) IB says that he is in error who mentions it in the present art.: Aboo-' Alee says that أُسْدِىٌّ and أُسْتِىٌّ are quasi-pls. of سَدَّى and سَتًى as signifying ثَوْبٌ مَسْدِىٌّ, and originally أُسْدُوىٌ and أُسْتُوىٌ; like as سدو is a quasi-pl. of سدى. (L.) [But see art. أَسِيدٌ and أَسِدٌ.]

Derived headwords

أُسْدِىٌّ
  1. 1.
ثَوْبٌ مَسْدِىٌّ