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صردح

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily describes vast, barren, and flat expanses of land, often implying emptiness and a lack of vegetation. It can also refer to a hard or solid place, and by extension, something intense or severe.

Derived headwords

الصَّرْدَحَةnoun
  1. 1.
    barren desertboth

    A desert that does not grow vegetation; it is a broad expanse of land that is flat.

الصَّرْدَحnoun
  1. 1.
    level placeboth

    A level place.

  2. 2.
    solid groundboth

    Solid ground.

  3. 3.
    wide smooth plainclassical

    A wide, smooth, and level place.

الصَّرْدَاحnoun
  1. 1.
    level placeboth

    A level place.

  2. 2.
    solid groundboth

    Solid ground.

  3. 3.
    empty desertclassical

    A desert that is empty of anything.

الصَّرَادِحnoun
  1. 1.
    barren desertsboth

    Deserts that have no trees or vegetation, characterized by being broad, flat expanses of land.

  2. 2.
    dry barren landboth

    Dry, barren land that contains nothing.

  3. 3.
    smooth landboth

    Smooth land.

صَرَدَاحِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    intenseclassical

    Severe or intense, used to describe something like a blow.

صَمَادِحِيّadjective
  1. 1.
    intenseclassical

    Severe or intense, used to describe something like a blow.

Parallel reading

الصردحة: الصحراء التي لا تنبت، وهي غلظ من الأرض مستو.
Al-sardaha: The desert that does not grow vegetation, and it is a broad expanse of land that is flat.
والصردح: المكان المستوي، والصرداح مثله.
And al-sardah: the level place, and al-sardah is similar.
والصردح والصرداح: المكان الصلب؛
And al-sardah and al-sardah: the solid place;
وقيل: الصردح المكان الواسع الأملس المستوي؛
And it was said: al-sardah is the wide, smooth, level place;
وقيل: الصرداح الفلاة التي لا شيء فيها؛ عن كراع.
And it was said: al-sardah is the desert that has nothing in it; from Kara'.
وهي الصحراء التي لا شجر بها ولا نبت، وهي غلظ من الأرض، وهي مستوية.
And it is the desert that has no trees or vegetation, and it is a broad expanse of land, and it is level.
الصرادح الأرض اليابسة التي لا شيء بها.
Al-saradih: the dry land that has nothing in it.
رأيت الناس في إمارة أبي بكر جمعوا في صردح ينفذهم البصر ويسمعهم الصوت
I saw the people during the emirate of Abu Bakr gathered in a sardah through which sight could penetrate and sound could be heard.
الصردح: الأرض الملساء، وجمعها صرادح.
Al-sardah: the smooth land, and its plural is saradih.
وضرب صرادحي وصمادحي: شديد بين.
And a sardahi and samadihi blow: severe and clear.