صَدْعٌ

[originally a verbal noun] A cleft, split, slit, or crack, (Lth, S, O, K, TA,) [generally] in a hard thing, (Lth, O, K, TA,) such as a glass vessel, and a wall, and the like of these: plural صُدُوعٌ. (TA.) Hassán says, satirizing El-Hárith Ibn-'Owf El-Murree,

وَأَمَانَةُ المُرِّىِّ حَيْثُ لَقِيتَهُ

مِثْلُ الزُّجَاجَةِ صَدْعُهَا لَمْ يُجْبَرِ

[And the fidelity of the Murree, where (meaning wherever) thou meetest him, is like the glass vessel, of which the crack is not repaired]. (O, TA.)

And A part, or portion, separated, of a thing, (O, K, TA,) of sheep or goats, and the like: (TA:) a verbal noun used as a subst. [properly thus termed]: (O, K, TA:) like خَلْقٌ in the sense of مَخْلُوقٌ, &c. (O, TA.)

And The plants of the earth; (K;) because they cleave it: (TA:) [i. e.] the plants from over which the earth cleaves: so in the phrase وَالأَرْضِ ذَاتِ الصَّدْعِ, in the Qur'an, 86:12: (Bd:) or this phrase means And the earth which is cloven by the plants (Th, Bd, TA) and by the springs. (Bd.)

-A2- And i. q. إِلْبٌ: (TA:) you say, النَّاسُ عَلَيْهِمْ صَدْعٌ وَاحِد, (K, TA,) and إِلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ [or أَلْبٌ وَاحِدٌ], (TA,) The people are one company combined in hostility against them: (K, TA:) and in like manner وَعْلٌ واحد and ضِلَعٌ واحد: so says AZ. (TA.)

-A3- And A man light of flesh; and so ↓ صَدَعٌ, (S, K,) sometimes: (S:) or of middling stature, light of flesh: (Ks, TA:) like the mountain-goat thus termed. (TA.)

See also صَدَعٌ.