سَنَدٌ
1.
The part that faces one, of a mountain, and rises from (عَن) the
سَفْح [i. e. base, or foot]; (S, K;) the acclivity, or rising part, in the face, or front, [or side,] of a mountain or a valley: (T, M, A:) or a rising, or an elevated, portion of ground: (Mgh:) plural أَسْنَادٌ, (M, A,) [properly a plural of pauc., but] the only plural form. (M.)
2.
A thing, such as a wall &c., against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself: (Mgh, Msb:) and
مِسْنَدٌ and
مُسْنَدٌ [the latter in the TA said to be with fet-h, but this is evidently a mistake, occasioned by a copyist's writing ويفتح for ويضمّ,] signify [the same,] a thing against, or upon, which one leans, rests, or stays himself; [and the former of these two particularly signifies a cushion, or pillow, and more particularly a large cushion or pillow, against which one leans; as explained by Golius on the authority of Meyd;] plural مَسَانِدُ. (L, Msb.)
3.
Applied to a man, i. q.
مُعْتَمَدٌ [meaning (tropical:) A person upon whom one leans, rests, stays himself, or relies]; (S;) a man's مُعْتَمَد [i. e. (tropical:) stay, support, or object of reliance]; (K, TA;) as also
مُسْتَنَدٌ. (TA.) You say سَيِّدٌ
سَنَدٌ (tropical:) [A lord, or chief, upon whom people lean, &c.]. (A, TA.) And هُوَسَنَدِى and
مُسْتَنَدِى (tropical:) [He is my stay, support, or object of reliance]. (A.) And حَدِيثٌ قَوِىُّ السَّنَدِ (tropical:) [A tradition valid in respect of the authority upon which it rests, or to which it is traced up or ascribed]. (A, TA. [See also إِسْنَادٌ, below.])
4.
See also مُسْنَدٌ.
5.
Also A sort of garment of the kind called
بُرُود, (IAar, K,) of the fabric of ElYemen: (IAar:) plural أَسْنَادٌ: (K:) or the plural is like the singular: (IAar, K:) one says أَثْوَابٌ سَنَدٌ [meaning garments of the kind called
سَنَد]: (TA, from a tradition:) Ibn-Buzurj says that السَّنَدُ means الأَسْنَادُ مِنَ الثِّيَابِ, i. e. garments of those called
بُرُود: and he cites, from a poet, the phrase جُبَّةُ
أَسْنَادٍ, which, he says, means a red jubbeh of those [made] of what are called
بُرُود. (TA.) Accord. to Lth, it signifies A sort of clothing, [consisting of] a shirt with a shirt over it: and in like manner, short shirts made of pieces of cloth, one whereof is concealed beneath another: whatever appears (كُلُّ مَا ظَهَرَ) thereof is termed سِمْطٌ [q. v.]: (O:) [this apparently explains the meaning of what here follows:] السَّنَدُ is [a term used in the case of] thy wearing a long shirt beneath a shirt shorter than it. (M.)