صَادِعٌ

[act. particle n. of صَدَعَ; Cleaving, splitting, &c.]

[Hence,] applied to a valley, (O, K,) and a road, or way, (سَبِيلٌ, O, TA, in the K erroneously written سَيْلٌ [a torrent], TA, [or both may be correct,]) and a mountain, (K, TA, [in the O, حَبْلٌ is put for جَبَلٌ,]) (assumed tropical:) Extending far along the earth. (O, K, TA.)

And, applied to the daybreak, (assumed tropical:) Shining, or bright; synonym مُشْرِقٌ. (IDrd, O, K.)

Also (assumed tropical:) One who decides, or judges, between, or among, a people, or party. (TA.)

A poet (قيس بن ذريح) says,

فَلَمَّا بَدَا مِنْهَا الفِرَاقُ كَمَا بَدَا

بِظَهْرِ الصَّفَا الصَّلْدِ الشُّقُوقُ الصَّوَادِعُ

[i. e. And when separation from her appeared, like as appear the cleaving cracks in the surface of the hard and smooth rock]: it may be that ↓ صَدَعَ is synonym with تَصَدَّعَ in some dialect [and that صَوَادِع is plural of its particle n.]: or this may be an instance of a possessive epithet, meaning having a cleaving. (TA.)