أَصْدَأُ

, (S, M, K,) applied to a horse, (K, TA,) or to a kid, (TA,) Of a sorrel colour (i. e. of the colour termed شُقْرَة) inclining to blackness, (M, K, TA,) the latter predominating: (TA:) or, applied to a horse, and to a goat, or kid, (S,) or applied to a kid, (K,) of a black colour intermixed, or tinged over, with redness [apparently like the rust of iron]: (S, K:) feminine صَدْاءُ (S, M, K,) and ↓ صَدِيءَةٌ. (M, L, TA.) And كُمَيْتٌ أَصْدَأُ [A bay, or dark bay, or brown, horse,] tinged over with dinginess. (S.)

Also Rusty, or rusted; applied to iron and the like. (M.)

And [hence] كَتِيبَةٌ صَدْاءُ, (M, and so in copies of the K,) or صَدْأًى, (K according to the TA,) and the former also, (TA,) [A body of troops having their arms or armour] overspread with the rust of iron. (M, K.)

And صَدْاءُ A land (أَرْضٌ) of which the stones are of a red colour inclining to blackness, and rugged, not even with the ground, these stones having beneath them [other] rough stones, or, sometimes, soil and stones. (Sh, L.)