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سَيِّد

master

Noun · masculineRoot س-و-د

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Also written سيد: سَيِّد (liberal)

Highlights

Plural
سَيِّدُون
Other plurals
سَادَة، أَسْيَاد، سَادَات
Feminine
سَيِّدَة

Most common words from the same root

Adjective
liberal
Adjective
black
Verb · Form I
to be master
Noun
أَسْوَد
black person
Verb · Form I
سَوِدَ
to be black
Verb · Form IX
اِسْوَدَّ
to become black

سَيِّد in English

Noun · masculine

  1. master, lord, prince
    وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَاPickthall: And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our princes and great men, and they misled us from the Way.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:67
  2. mister
  3. sir
  4. Sayyid (title of a male descendant of Mohammed)

Word origin

From Proto-Semitic *swd-. Cognate with Imperial Aramaic 𐡎𐡅𐡃 (swd), 𐡎𐡉𐡃 (syd, “to have lordship”).

Words from the root س-و-د

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

سَادَ · present يَسُودُ

to be master, to have power, to rule

سِيَادَة
Verbal noun
mastery
سُؤْدُد
Verbal noun
glory
سُؤْدَد
Verbal noun
سَائِد
Active participle · Adjective
prevailing
مَسُود
Passive participle
فَرِّقْ تَسُدْ
Derived noun
divide and conquer
سَوِدَ · present يَسْوَدُ

to be black

سَوَد
Verbal noun
Active participle · Adjective
black
أَسْوَد
Active participle
black person
أَسْوَد
Active participle · Adjective
elative degree of سَيِّد
سَوَّدَ · present يُسَوِّدُ

to make black, to blacken; to draft, to write or bewrite as a sketch; to make master over, to make wield

تَسْوِيد
Verbal noun
darkening
مُسَوِّد
Active participle
مُسَوَّد
Passive participle
اِسْوَدَّ · present يَسْوَدُّ

to become black, to blacken

اِسْوِدَاد
Verbal noun
مُسْوَدّ
Active participle · Adjective
darkened
Noun · m.
master
Adjective
liberal
سَوَاد
Noun · m.
blackness
سَوْدَاء
Noun · f.
black bile
مُسْوَدَّة
Noun · f.
draft
اِسْوِيدَاد
Noun · m.
سُوَيْدَاء
Noun · f.
seepweed
سَوْدَاوِيّ
Adjective
melancholic
سَوْدَاوِيَّة
Noun · f.
melancholy

سَيِّد: plural and other forms

Singularسَيِّد
Pluralسَيِّدُون
Alternative pluralsسَادَة، أَسْيَاد، سَادَات
Feminineسَيِّدَة

سَيِّد in a sentence

Dictionary examples

master

وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَاPickthall: And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our princes and great men, and they misled us from the Way.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:67

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