سند

سَنَدٌ ذ The part that faces one, of a mountain, and rises from (عَن) the سَفْح [i. e. base, or foot ]; (S, K;) the acclivity, or rising part, in the face, or front, [or side, ] of a mountain or a valley: (T, M, A:) or a rising, or an elevated, portion of ground: (Mgh:) pl. أَسْنَادٌ, (M, A,) [properly a pl. of pauc., but] the only pl. form. (M.) ― -b2- A thing, such as a wall &c., against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself: (Mgh, Msb:) and ↓ مِسْنَدٌ and ↓ مُسْنَدٌ [the latter in the TA said to be with fet-h, but this is evidently a mistake, occasioned by a copyist's writing ويفتح for ويضمّ,] signify [the same,] a thing against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself; [and the former of these two particularly signifies a cushion, or pillow, and more particularly a large cushion or pillow, against which one leans; as expl. by Golius on the authority of Meyd;] pl. مَسَانِدُ. (L, Msb.) ― -b3- Applied to a man, i. q. مُعْتَمَدٌ [meaning (tropical:) A person upon whom one leans, rests, stays himself, or relies ]; (S;) a man's مُعْتَمَد [i. e. (tropical:) stay, support, or object of reliance ]; (K, TA;) as also ↓ مُسْتَنَدٌ. (TA.) You say سَيِّدٌ سَنَدٌ (tropical:) [ A lord, or chief, upon whom people lean, &c.]. (A, TA.) And هُوَسَنَدِى and ↓ مُسْتَنَدِى (tropical:) [ He is my stay, support, or object of reliance ]. (A.) And حَدِيثٌ قَوِىُّ السَّنَدِ (tropical:) [ A tradition valid in respect of the authority upon which it rests, or to which it is traced up or ascribed ]. (A, TA. [See also اـِسْنَادٌ, below.]) ― -b4- See also مُسْنَدٌ. -A2- Also A sort of garment of the kind called بُرُود, (IAar, K,) of the fabric of ElYemen: (IAar:) pl. أَسْنَادٌ: (K:) or the pl. is like the sing.: (IAar, K:) one says أَثْوَابٌ سَنَدٌ [meaning garments of the kind called سَنَد]: (TA, from a trad.:) Ibn-Buzurj says that السَّنَدُ means الأَسْنَادُ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ, i. e. garments of those called بُرُود: and he cites, from a poet, the phrase جُبَّةُ أَسْنَادٍ, which, he says, means a red jubbeh of those [ made ] of what are called بُرُود. (TA.) Accord. to Lth, it signifies A sort of clothing, [ consisting of ] a shirt with a shirt over it: and in like manner, short shirts made of pieces of cloth, one whereof is concealed beneath another: whatever appears (كُلُّ مَا ظَهَرَ) thereof is termed سِمْطٌ [q. v.]: (O:) [this app. explains the meaning of what here follows:] السَّنَدُ is [a term used in the case of] thy wearing a long shirt beneath a shirt shorter than it. (M.)