ثدي

From ث د ي (ṯ-d-y), from Proto-Semitic *ṯdʾ (“breast, pap, teat, mammary”). Cognate with Hebrew שָׁד (šad, “breast”) and Aramaic תַּדָּא (“breast”).

ثَدْي • (ṯady) m or f (dual ثَدْيَانِ (ṯadyāni), plural ثُدِيّ (ṯudiyy) or ثِدِيّ (ṯidiyy) or أَثْدٍ (ʔaṯdin) or أَثْدَاء (ʔaṯdāʔ))

1. breast

According to Lane, it is most correctly masculine gender.

• ثَنْدُوَة (ṯanduwah, noun)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ثدي”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ثدي”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ثدي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

ثَدِيَ • (ṯadiya) I (non-past يَثْدَى (yaṯdā), verbal noun ثَدًى (ṯadan))

1. to be full-bosomed
2. to be wettened or moistened, to be madescent, to be baveuse

• ثَدْيَاء f (ṯadyāʔ, adjective)