everlasting (God)

, (S, M, A, Mgh,) aor. , (S, Mgh,) inf. n. صَمْدٌ; (S, M, Mgh, K;) and صَمَدَ إِلَيْهِ; (M, A; *) He tended, repaired, betook himself, or directed himself or his course or aim, to, or towards, him, or it; or endeavoured to reach, or attain, or obtain, him, or it; or had recourse to him, or it; syn. قَصَدَهُ: (S, M, A, Mgh, K: *) and so سَمَدَهُ. (M in art. سمد.) One says, صَمَدَ إِلَيْهِ فِى الحَوَايأِجِ He repaired, betook himself, or had recourse, to him in exigencies; syn. قَصَدَ. (M.) And صَمَدَ الأَمْرَ, (A,) or صَمَدَ صَمْدَ الأَمْرِ, (M,) He betook himself to the thing, or affair; aimed at it; sought it, or endeavoured after it; or intended, or purposed, it; syn. اِعْتَمَدَهُ; (A;) or قَصَدَ قَصْدَهُ. (M.) And ↓ تصمّد لَهُ بِالعَصَا He betook himself to him or towards him, or aimed at him, with the staff, or stick; syn. قَصَدَ. (M.) And رَأْسَهُ بِالعَصَا ↓ تصمّد He aimed (عَمَدَ) at the main part of his head with the staff, or stick. (M.) ― -b2- Hence, صَمَدَ لَهُ He faced it directly; directed his face exactly towards it. (Mgh.) ― -b3- And He pointed towards it. (Mgh.) ― -b4- And صَمَدْتُ لَهُ حَتَّى أَمْكَنَتْنِى مِنْهُ غِرَّةٌ I sprang and betook myself towards him, watching until heedlessness on his part made me to have him within my power. (L, from a trad. respecting the slaying of Aboo-Jahl.) ― -b5- And صَمَدَهُ بِالعَصَا, (A,) inf. n. صَمْدٌ, (K,) He struck him, or beat him, with the staff, or stick. (A, K. *) -A2- الصَّمْدُ also signifies النَّصْبُ [The setting up, or erecting, a thing]: (K:) one says صَمَدَهُ He set it up, or erected, it. (TK.) -A3- And صَمَدَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَجْهَهُ, (TK,) inf. n. صَمْدٌ, (K,) The sun scorched his face. (K, * TK.) -A4- صَمَدَ القَارُورَةَ, (M, K,) aor. , (M,) or , (K,) but this is strange, for there is no faucial letter, nor any other reason for it, (MF,) He put a صِمَاد [q. v.] over, or into, the mouth of the flask, or bottle. (M, K.)

[صمّدهُ, said of a number of persons, signifies the same as صَمَدَهُ as first expl. above; or, said of a single person, He tended, repaired, &c., repeatedly, or frequently, to him, or it; see its pass. part. n., below.] -A2- صمّد رَأْسَهُ, inf. n. تَصْمِيدٌ, He wound a piece of cloth, or a kerchief, called صِمَاد, round his head. (TA.)

, (TA,) inf. n. صِمَادٌ, (K, TA,) He contended with him in fight; syn. of the inf. n. جِلَادٌ. (K, * TA. [For جِلَاد, Golius appears to have found in his copy of the K جَلَّاد.])

He rested, or stayed, upon him the affair; syn. أَسْنَدَهُ. (M.)

see 1, in two places.

inf. n. of 1. (S, M, &c.) [Hence صَمَدْتُ صَمْدَهُ, like قَصَدْتُ قَصْدَهُ, q. v.] -A2- Also, (S, L, K,) or ↓ صَمَدٌ, (as in a copy of the S and in one of the M,) Elevated ground: (L:) or elevated and rugged ground, (S, M, L, K,) not so high as to be a mountain: (M, L:) or hard, firm, or tough, ground: (AA:) pl. أَصْمَادٌ and ↓ صِمَادٌ: (M:) or a narrow, rugged, and low part of a mountain, producing trees; as also ↓ صِمَادٌ. (Aboo-Kheyreh.)

(with the article ال an epithet applied to God, M) A lord; because one repairs, betakes himself, or has recourse, to him in exigencies; (S, A, K; *) or, when applied to God, because affairs are stayed, or rested, upon Him, (أُصْمِدَتْ إِلَيْهِ,) and none but He accomplishes them: (M, A, L:) or a person to whom one repairs, betakes himself, or has recourse, in exigencies: (M, A: *) you say, سَيِّدٌ صَمَدٌ, meaning a lord, or chief, to whom recourse is had: (A:) or صَمَدٌ signifies a lord to whom obedience is rendered, without whom no affair is accomplished: or one to whom lordship ultimately pertains: (M, L:) or a lord whose lordship has attained its utmost point or degree; in which sense it is not applicable to God: (T, L:) or the Being that continues, or continues for ever or is everlasting: (M, K:) or the Being that continues, or continues for ever, after his creatures have perished: (M:) or the Creator of everything, of whom nothing is independent, and whose unity everything indicates: or one who takes no nourishment, or food: (M, L:) also high, or elevated; (L, K;) applied to anything: (L:) a man above whom is no one: (L:) a man who neither thirsts nor hungers in war. (AA, K.) ― -b2- Also Solid; not hollow; (M, K;) in which sense it may not be applied to God: (M:) and so ↓ مُصْمَدٌ, a dial. var. of مُصْمَتٌ. (S.) ― -b3- And A people having no trade, or occupation, nor anything by means of which they may live. (K.) -A2- See also صَمْدٌ.

A rock firmly imbedded in the earth, even with the surface thereof, or, in some instances, somewhat elevated; (M, K; *) as also ↓ صُمْدَةٌ. (M.) -A2- And A she-camel that has been covered and has not conceived; (M, K; *) as also ↓ صَمَدَةٌ. (Kr, M.)

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The سِدَاد [or stopper, like صِمَامٌ], (IAar, K,) or the عِفَاص [or piece of skin that is put as a cover over the mouth], (Lth, S, M,) of a flask or bottle. (Lth, IAar, S, M, K.) ― -b2- And A piece of cloth, or a kerchief, which a man winds round his head, دُونَ العِمَامَةِ [which may mean either exclusively of the turban or beneath the turban]. (K.) -A2- See also صَمْدٌ, in two places.

A certain idol, which belonged to the tribe of 'Ád, who worshipped it. (TA.)