سدر

Sense of letting go cognate with Hebrew שִׁדֵּר (shidér, “to send, to dispatch, to broadcast”) via Jewish Babylonian Aramaic root ש־ד־ר (“to send”)

• IPA^(key): /sa.di.ra/

سَدِرَ • (sadira) I (non-past يَسْدَرُ (yasdaru), verbal noun سَدَر (sadar) or سَدَارَة (sadāra))

1. to be dazzled, to be blinded, to have vision blocked
   • c. 700, al-ʾaḵṭal at-taġlibī, ألا سائل الجحاف هل هو ثائر:

     يصولُ بمَجْرٍ لَيْسَ يُحْصى عديدُه
     ويَسْدَرُ مِنْهُ، ساجِياً، كلُّ ناظِرِ

     He encroaches numerously in a number that cannot be counted
     And every beholder is silent and dazzled by him.

2. to be careless, to be regardless, to be reckless
3. to let go, to exert
4. to hung down, to descend

سَدَر • (sadar) m

1. verbal noun of سَدِرَ (sadira) (form I)

 سدر on Arabic Wikipedia

From the root س د ر (s-d-r) meaning “to obscure or block vision”, “to make an area inaccessible or blocked”; originally applied variously to lofty trees associated with shade.

• IPA^(key): /sidr/

سِدْر • (sidr) m (collective, singulative سِدْرَة f (sidra), plural سُدُور (sudūr) or سِدَر (sidar), paucal سِدَرَات (sidarāt))

1. buckthorn, trees of the genus Ziziphus

   Synonym: نَبَق (nabaq)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:28-29:

     فِي سِدْرٍ مَّخْضُودٍ وَطَلْحٍ مَّنْضُودٍ

     fī sidrin maḵḍūdin waṭalḥin manḍūdin

     among buckthorn trees with thorns removed and vachellia trees layered

• → Classical Azerbaijani: sidrə
• → Persian: سدر (sedr)
• → Ottoman Turkish: سدره (sidre), سدر (sidr)
  • Turkish: sidre

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “سدر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 299
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “سدر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1331
• Löw, Immanuel (1934) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 4, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 67
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سدر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 487
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سدر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 470
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سدر”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 561

From Arabic سِدْر (sidr).

• IPA^(key): /sidr/

سدر • (sidr) (singulative سدره (sidre))

1. buckthorn, trees of the genus Ziziphus

• Turkish: sidre

From French cèdre.

• IPA^(key): /sɛdr/, /sɛdir/

سدر • (sedr, sedir)

1. cedar, tree of the genus Cedrus

• Turkish: sedr, sedir
• →? Azerbaijani: sidr (“cedar”) (by confusion)

• Zenker, Julius Theodor (1876) “سدر”, in Türkisch-arabisch-persisches Handwörterbuch, volume 2 (overall work in German and French), Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, page 501b

سدر • (ṣidr) m

1. Alternative spelling of صدر (ṣidr)