صدئ

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See also: صدي and صدی

Arabic

Root
ص د ء (ṣ d ʔ)
4 terms

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

صَدِئَ (ṣadiʔa) I (non-past يَصْدَأُ (yaṣdaʔu), verbal noun صَدَأ (ṣadaʔ))

  1. to be rusty
    Synonym: تَأَكْسَدَ (taʔaksada)
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Adjective

صَدِئ (ṣadiʔ)

  1. rusty
  2. shabby, disagreeable in taste or smell or repute, disgraceful
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب معرفة الذهب والفضة وامتحانهما [About the knowledge of gold and silver and their assessment]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎:
      وزعموا أن خير الذهب العقيان وخير الفضة اللُّجَين، ومذاق الفضة الصافية عذبٌ، ومذاق الزيوف مرٌّ صَدِئٌ، والنبهرج من الدراهم مالحٌ جَرَسيُّ الطنين، والفضة صافية الطنين لا يشوبها صَممٌ، وهي تقطع العطش إذا مُسكت في الفم.
      It is claimed that the best gold is the native one, and the best silver the refined one. Refined silver tastes sweet, fake silver bitter and disagreeable. The phoney dirhams are salty in taste and bell-sounding, whereas pure silver has a thudless sound. It tranquilizes thirst if held in the mouth.
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “صدئ”, 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 485
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “صدئ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1659–1660
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “صدئ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 700