ددن

دَدَانٌ ددان , applied to a sword, Blunt; (T, S, K;) that will not penetrate into the thing struck with it: (S:) and also sharp: thus bearing two contr. significations: (K:) or, accord. to Th, a sword with which trees are cut; called by others مِعْضَدٌ; and this is not necessarily the contr. of a blunt sword. (TA.) ― -b2- Also, applied to a man, [perhaps from the first of the significations mentioned above,] meaning لَاغَنَاآءَ عِنْدَهُ [ Not having, or not possessing, what suffices; or not profitable to any one ]. (Fr, S, K.)