صدع

صَادِعٌ ذ [act. part. n. of صَدَعَ; Cleaving, splitting, &c.] ― -b2- [Hence,] applied to a valley, (O, K,) and a road, or way, (سَبِيلٌ, O, TA, in the K erroneously written سَيْلٌ [a torrent], TA, [or both may be correct,]) and a mountain, (K, TA, [in the O, حَبْلٌ is put for جَبَلٌ,]) (assumed tropical:) Extending far along the earth. (O, K, TA.) ― -b3- And, applied to the daybreak, (assumed tropical:) Shining, or bright; syn. مُشْرِقٌ. (IDrd, O, K.) ― -b4- Also (assumed tropical:) One who decides, or judges, between, or among, a people, or party. (TA.) ― -b5- A poet (قيس بن ذريح) says, فَلَمَّا بَدَا مِنْهَا الفِرَاقُ كَمَا بَدَا بِظَهْرِ الصَّفَا الصَّلْدِ الشُّقُوقُ الصَّوَادِعُ [i. e. And when separation from her appeared, like as appear the cleaving cracks in the surface of the hard and smooth rock ]: it may be that ↓ صَدَعَ is syn. with تَصَدَّعَ in some dial. [and that صَوَادِع is pl. of its part. n.]: or this may be an instance of a possessive epithet, meaning having a cleaving. (TA.)