سدوس

Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰσάτις (isátis, woad).

Noun

سُدُوس or سَدُوس • (sudūs or sadūs) m

  1. woad
    Synonyms: وَسْمَة (wasma), خِطْر (ḵiṭr)
    • a. 540, Imruʾ al-Qays, أمِنْ ذِكرِ سلمَى أنْ نأتْكَ تَنوصُ :
      وَذِي أُشُرٍ تَشُوقُهُ وَتَشُوصُ
      مَنَابِتُهُ مِثْلُ السُدُوسِ وَلَوْنُهُ
      كَشَوْكِ السِيَالِ فَهُوَ عَذْبٌ يَفِيصُ
      wa-ḏī ʔušurin tašūqu-hū wa-tašūṣu
      manābitu-hū miṯlu as-sudūsi wa-lawnu-hū
      ka-šawki s-siyāli fa-huwa ʕaḏbun yafīṣu
      And these between-times thrutch him to and fro and rapture,
      its plantings equalling woad and the colour it passes,
      like milk-vetch, it’s a thing with but a sweetness that lapses.
  2. a kind of lavish gown typically coloured with woad

Declension

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1845) Dictionnaire détaillé des noms des vêtements chez les arabes (in French), Amsterdam: Jean Müller, page 201
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 48
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “سدوس”, 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 300a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “سدوس”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 1070b–1071a
  • Löw, Immanuel (1922) “Semitische Färberpflanzen”, in Zeitschrift für Semitistik und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 1, pages 122–135
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