support, lean, rely

, (S, M, Msb, K,) aor. , (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. سُنُودٌ; (S, M, Msb, K;) and سَنِدَ, aor. ; (Msb;) and ↓ استند, [which is the most common,] (S, M, Msb, K,) and ↓ تساند, (S, M, A, K,) and ↓ اسند; (M, TA;) signify the same; (S, M, * Msb, K *;) i. e. He (a man, S, Msb, [and in like manner it is said of a thing,]) leaned, rested, or stayed himself, against it, or upon it; syn. اِعْتَمَدَ; (TK;) [or اعتمد عَلَيْهِ;] namely, a thing, (S, M, Msb,) or a wall, (A, Msb,) &c. (Msb.) ― -b2- سَنَدَفِى الجَبَلِ, (M, K,) aor. , inf. n. سُنُودٌ, (M,) He ascended the mountain; as also ↓ اسند. (M, K.) And [hence,] إِلَى فُلَانٍ ↓ أَسْنَدْتُ (tropical:) I ascended to such a one. (A.) ― -b3- And سَنَدَ فِى الخَمْسِينَ, (M, and so in some copies of the K,) or لِلْخَمْسِينَ, (so in other copies of the K,) (tropical:) He approached, or drew near to, [the age of] fifty: (K, TA:) [likewise] from سَنَدَ فِى الجَبَلِ. (M, TA. *) ― -b4- سَنَدَ ذَنَبُ النَّاقَةِ, (K,) or ↓ أَسْنَدَ, (so in the O,) The tail of the she-camel tossed about, and lashed her croup, or rump, on the right and left. (O, K.)

, inf. n. تَسْنِيدٌ, He set up [pieces of] wood [as stays, or props,] against a wall. (KL. [See the pass. part. n., below. And see also 3 and 4.]) -A2- Also, inf. n. as above, He (a man) wore, or clad himself with, the kind of بُرْد called سَنَد. (IAar, K.)

: see 4. [Hence,] سُونِدَ المَرِيضُ [The sick man was stayed, or propped up, against a pillow or the like]: and قَالَ سَانِدُونِى [He (the sick man) said, Stay ye me, or prop ye me up]. (A, TA.) And يُسَانِدُ بَعْضُهُ بَعْضًا [One part of it stays, or supports, and so renders firm or strong, another part]. (Sh, O, K. [See مُسَانَدَةٌ.]) ― -b2- [And hence,] سُونِدَ خَلْقُهَا, referring to a she-camel, (assumed tropical:) Her frame, or make, was symmetrical; or conformable in its several parts. (Ham p. 783.) ― -b3- And ساندهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. مُسَانَدَةٌ, (S,) He aided, or assisted, him; namely, another man. (S, K.) ― -b4- And (tropical:) He requited, compensated, or recompensed, him, (A, K, TA,) عَلَى العَمَلِ [for work, or for the work or deed]. (K.)

(AZ, S, * M, * Msb, K * TA) I made him, or it, to lean, rest, or stay himself or itself, against, or upon, the thing; (TK;) and إِلَيْهِ ↓ سَانَدْتُهُ signifies the same. (AZ, TA.) You say, اسند ظَهْرَهُ إِلَى الحَايأِطِ He leaned his back against the wall. (MA.) And اسندهُ He stayed, propped, or supported, it; namely, a thing leaning; syn. دَعَمَهُ. (TA in art. دعم.) ― -b2- [Hence,] أَسْنَدْتُ إِلَيْهِ أَمْرِى (tropical:) [I rested, or stayed, upon him my affair]. (A.) ― -b3- And اسند الحَدِيثَ إِلَى قَايأِلِهِ (T, M, * L, Msb,) inf. n. إِسْنَادٌ [q. v. infrà], (S, &c.,) (tropical:) He traced up, or ascribed, or attributed, the tradition to the author thereof, [resting it upon his authority,] (T, S, M, L, Msb, TA,) by mentioning him, (Msb,) or by mentioning, uninterruptedly, in ascending order, the persons by whom it had been transmitted, up to the Prophet; (T, L, KT;) [or by mentioning the person who had related it to him from the Prophet if only one person intervened;] saying, “ Such a one told me, from such a one, ” [and so on, if more than one intervened between him and the Prophet,] “ from the Apostle of God; ” (KT;) [or it may be with an interruption in the mention of the person by whom it had been transmitted: see مُسْنَدٌ, below.] ― -b4- إِسْنَادُ أَمْرٍ إِلَى آخَرَ إِيجَابًا أَوْ سَلْبًا [is a conventional phrase, used in logic, meaning (assumed tropical:) The judging a thing to stand to another thing in the relation of an attribute to its subject, affirmatively or negatively]. (Kull p. 157, in explanation of الحُكْمُ as a logical term [meaning “ judgment ”].) ― -b5- [إِسْنَادٌ مَجَازِىٌّ is another conventional term, used in lexicology and rhetoric, meaning (assumed tropical:) A tropical attribution of an act or a quality or a meaning; as in عِيشَةٌ رَاضِيَةٌ for مَرْضِيَّةٌ, and in زَبُونٌ (q. v.) in one of its senses: see Har p. 432 ― -b6- أُسْنِدَ الفِعْلُ إِلَى زَيْدٍ, another conventional phrase, is said of the verb in the phrases قَامَ زَيْدٌ and ضُزِبَ زَيْدٌ and زَيْدٌ قَامَ meaning The verb is made an attributive to Zeyd: and, in an unusual manner, it is said (in the Msb in art. سلب) of the verb in the saying سَلَبْتُ زَيْدًا ثَوْبَهُ; so that it means in this instance The verb is made to have Zeyd for its object. And أُسْنِدَ إِلَيْهِ فَاعِلَانِ فَصَاعِدًا is said (in the TA in art. سوى) of the verb in the phrase اِسْتَوَى زَيْدٌ وَعَمْرٌو وَخَالِدٌ فِى هٰذَا; so that it means Two and more agents are assigned to it.] ― -b7- اسندهُ فِى الجَبَلِ He made him to ascend the mountain. (K.) -A2- اسند as an intrans. verb: see 1, in four places. ― -b2- You say also, اسند فِى العَدْوِ, (M, L,) inf. n. إِسْنَادٌ (L,) He was vehement in running; he strove, laboured, or exerted himself, therein. (M, L.) ― -b3- And He (a camel) went a pace between that called ذَمِيلٌ and that called هَمْلَجَةٌ. (L.)

see 1, first sentence. ― -b2- تساند القَوْمُ means The people went forth, every commander of them with a [separate] corps. (Ham p. 783.) [See also the act. part. n. below.]

see 1, first sentence.

, (S, L,) or السِّنْدُ, (M, L, K,) A certain country, (S, L, K,) well known, (K,) said in the “ Marásid ” to be a country between India (الهِنْد) and Karmán and Sijistán: (TA:) or a people; (K;) [the people of that country;] a well-known nation; (M, L;) a nation bordering upon India, whose colours incline to yellowness, and who are generally slender: (Mgh:) or one of these meanings is the original of the other: (TA:) ↓ سِنْدِىٌّ signifies a single person thereof: (S, K:) and سِنْدٌ is the pl., (K,) or [rather] is applied to the people collectively; (S;) these two words being like زِنْجِىُّ and زِنْجٌ: (TA:) the pl. of سِنْدٌ is سُنُودٌ and أَسْنَادٌ. (M, L.) السِّنْدُ is also the name of A great river of الهِنْد [or India; i. e. the Indus]: and of a district in El-Andalus: and of a town in Western Africa (المَغْرِب). (K.)

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 إِسْنَادٌ, 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.)

: see سِنْدٌ [of which it is the n. un.].

, with fet-h, (Mgh, Msb, K,) or ↓ سِنْدَانٌ, (thus in a copy of the M, [and thus I have generally found it written, agreeably with the common modern pronunciation,]) The عَلَاة, (M,) or زُبْرَة, (Msb,) [both meaning anvil,] of the blacksmith. (Msb, K.)

Great and strong; applied to a man and to a wolf. (K.) -A2- See also the next preceding paragraph.

A she-ass [either domestic or wild: probably the latter, because of her strength]. (K.)