sunodusN * Thin, or fine, diybaAj [or silk brocade ]: (Th, M, Bd and Jel in xviii. 30, Jel in xliv. 53, Msb, K, TA:) or thin, or fine, Hariyr [q. v.]: (Bd in xliv.:) opposed to A_isotaboraqN : (TA:) or i. q. bizoyawonN [expl. by IB as meaning thin, or fine, dybAj : so in the TA in art. bzn ]: (S:) or a kind of bzywn ; (Lth, K, TA;) made of [ the kind of down called ] miroEiz~aY : (Lth, TA:) or a kind of buruwd [pl. of burodN , q. v.]: (M, K:) [accord. to Golius, præstans et subtile panni serici genus; as on the authority of Ibn-Maaroof: and Attalicus pannus, aurum argentumve intextum habens; as on the authority of J, who, however, explains it only by the word bizoyawonN : it is mentioned in the S and Msb in art. sds ; and in the latter, is said to be of the measure funoEulN ; but accord. to the K, the n is a radical letter:] it is [said to be] an arabicized word, without contradiction, (Lth, K,) as well as A_isotaboraqN : (Lth:) but both these words occur in the Kur-án, and Esh-Sháfi'ee and others deny that any arabicized word occurs therein: [though they are opposed by Bd (xvii. 37) and others:] some say that they are instances of the agreement of different languages. (MF.)
The corpus record — Arabic
سُندُس
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sunodusN * Thin, or fine, diybaAj [or silk brocade ]: (Th, M, Bd and Jel in xviii. 30, Jel in xliv. 53, Msb, K, TA:) or thin, or fine, Hariyr [q. v.]: (Bd in xliv.:) opposed to A_isotaboraqN : (TA:) or i. q. bizoyawonN [expl. by IB as meaning thin, or fine, dybAj : so in the TA in art. bzn ]: (S:) o
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- The Quran 3 · 0.23/10k
What it meant — Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon
In the wild
- سُندُسٍ Quran 18:31 (Al-Kahf 31)
- سُندُسٍ Quran 44:53 (Ad-Dukhan 53)
- سُندُسٍ Quran 76:21 (Al-Insan 21)
Quran text from Tanzil (tanzil.net), distributed verbatim per its license. Morphological facts derived from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (corpus.quran.com, Kais Dukes), stated as facts with source credit. Dictionary senses from Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93, public domain), via the Perseus Digital Library.