Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

by Edward William Lane (1801-1876)

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سرم سرمد سرند


سَرْمَدٌ

سَرْمَدٌ [signifies, or implies,] Continuance, or incessant continuance, (دَوَام, Kh, M, L, and اِتِّصَال, Kh, L,) of time, (Kh, M, L,) either of night or of day. (Kh, L.) [I have said “or implies” because I have not found it used otherwise than as an epithet, in the following senses.]

Root: سرمد - Entry: سَرْمَدٌ.1 Signification: A2

Continuing; or continuing incessantly, or endlessly; syn. دَائِمٌ; (Zj, Ṣ, L, Ḳ;) or دَائِمٌ لَا يَنْقَطِعُ. (Nh, L.) It is applied in this sense to night (Nh, L) [and also to day: to each in the Ḳur xxviii. 71 and 72]: and to night as meaning Long. (L, Ḳ.)

Root: سرمد - Entry: سَرْمَدٌ.1 Signification: A3

Accord. to El-Fakhr Er-Rázee, it is derived from السَّرْدُ, which denotes consecutiveness and uninterruptedness, and the م is added to give intensiveness to the signification: if so, its proper place is in art. سرد; its measure being فَعْمَلٌ: (MF:) [thus] its م is augmentative like the م in دُلَامِصٌ. (Bḍ in xxviii. 71.)

Root: سرمد - Entry: سَرْمَدٌ.1 Signification: A4

One says also, هُوَ لَكَ سَرْمَدًا He, or it, is thine ever, or for ever. (Mgh in art. سمد.)


سَرْمَدِىٌّ

سَرْمَدِىٌّ Having neither beginning nor end. (KT.)


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