سيد

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

• IPA^(key): /saj.jid/

سَيِّد • (sayyid) m (plural سَيِّدُون (sayyidūn) or سَادَة (sāda) or أَسْيَاد (ʔasyād), feminine سَيِّدَة (sayyida))

1. master, lord, prince
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 33:67:

     وَقَالُوا رَبَّنَا إِنَّا أَطَعْنَا سَادَتَنَا وَكُبَرَاءَنَا فَأَضَلُّونَا السَّبِيلَا

     waqālū rabbanā ʔinnā ʔaṭaʕnā sādatanā wakubarāʔanā faʔaḍallūnā s-sabīlā

     Pickthall: And they say: Our Lord! Lo! we obeyed our princes and great men, and they misled us from the Way.

   • (Can we date this quote?), محمد بنيس [Mohammed Bennis], مَا بَنَاهُ الْأَقْدَمُونَ [mā banāhu l-ʔaqdamūna]‎^[1]:

     هُنَالِكَ سَيِّدُونَ عَلَى الْبَسِيطَة
     تَائِهُون

     hunālika sayyidūna ʕalā l-basīṭa(t)
     tāʔihūn

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. mister
3. sir
4. Sayyid (title of a male descendant of Mohammed)

• → Japanese: サイイド (saiido)
• Maltese: sid
• →⇒ Mozarabic: סדילה (sdylh)
• → Spanish: Cid, Çid (obsolete)
• → Persian: سید (seyyed)
• → Hindi: सैयद (saiyad)
• → Urdu: سید (sed)

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سيد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سيد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

سَيِّد • (sayyid) (feminine سَيِّدَة (sayyida) or سَيِّد (sayyid), masculine plural سَادَة (sāda) or أَسْيَاد (ʔasyād), elative أَسْوَد (ʔaswad))

1. liberal, generous
2. noble, high-born
3. wise

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “سيد”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سيد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[3], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “سود”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid).

• IPA^(key): /səjːɪd/

سَيِّد • (sayyid) m (plural سادة (sāda), feminine سَيِّدة (sayyida))

1. mister

   Synonym: استاذ (istāḏ)

2. master

سَيِّد • (sayyid) m (plural سادة (sāda), feminine عِلْويّة (ʕilwīya))

1. Sayyid, Sayed (title of a male descendant of Prophet Muhammad)

From Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid).

• IPA^(key): /siːd/

سيد • (sīd) m (construct state سيدو (sīdu), plural أسياد (ʔasyād), feminine ست (sitt))

1. grandfather

   Synonym: جَدّ (jadd)

• IPA^(key): /saj.jid/

سيد • (sayyid) m (plural سادة (sāda))

1. (archaic) A title given to male descendants of the prophet Muhammad.

   Synonym: شَريف (šarīf)

From Arabic سَيِّد (sayyid).

• IPA^(key): /siːd/, [siːd]

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سيد • (sīd) m (plural أسياد (ʔasyād), feminine ست (sitt))

1. master, lord
2. grandfather

   Synonym: جد (jidd)