ك د د
Verbs
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Lane's Lexicon
Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 18 entries-
كُدَّ Form I He toiled; or was, or became, vehement, or severe
, aor. , (L,) inf. n. كَدٌّ, (S, L, K,) He toiled; or was, or became, vehement, or severe, (S, A, L, K,) in work; (S, A, L;) he worked laboriously; (TA;) he fatigued himself, and hastened, in his work. (L.) [You say] بِجَدِّكَ لَا بِكَدِّكَ By thy good fortune, not by thy toil, are things attained. A proverb. (L.) And لَا تَجْعَلْ عَيْشَهُمَا كَدًّ Make not the life of them two a toil. (L, from a trad.) ― -b2- المَسَايأِلُ كَدٌّ يَكَدُّ بِهَا الرَّجُلُ وَجْهَهُ Petitions are [a cause of] dispiriting: a man thereby impairs the brightness of his countenance. (L, from a trad.) -A2- كَدَّهُ, (L, K, aor. , inf. n. كَدٌّ, (L,) He required of him toil, or vehemence, or severity in work, or persevering or constant exertion in striving to do a thing or in seeking a thing; as also ↓ اكتدّهُ, and ↓ استكدّهُ: (L, K:) he fatigued or wearied or jaded him; (S, * L;) namely, a beast, and a man, &c.: (L;) [like دَكَّهُ;] he plied, or pressed him, plied or pressed him hard, or harassed him, in constant work which he imposed upon him, so as to fatigue or weary him. (Az, L.) See also كَدٌّ. ― -b2- كَدَّ (tropical:) He fatigued his tongue with speaking and his heart with thinking. (A, L.) ― -b3- كَدَّ, aor. , (L,) inf. n. كَدٌّ, (L, K,) He exerted himself perseveringly, assiduously, constantly, or incessantly, (L, K,) in striving to do, effect, or accomplish, a thing, (L,) or in seeking [a thing]. (K.) ― -b4- كَدَّ, aor. , (L,) inf. n. كَدٌّ, (S, L,) He sought (S, L) gain, (S,) or, sustenance, or the means of subsistence. (L.) -A3- كَدَّ, aor. , (L,) inf. n. كَدٌّ, (S, L, K,) He pointed, or made a sign, with the finger, (S, L, K,) like as the beggar does. (S.) [It is also trans.] El-Kumeyt says, " غَنِيتُ فَلَمْ أَرْدُدْكُمُ عِنْدَ بِغْيَةٍ وَحُجْتُ فَلَمْ أَكْدُدْكُمُ بِالأَصَابِعِ " [I was rich, and I did not repel you on an occasion of exigency; and I was in want, and I did not point at you with the fingers]. (S, L.) ― -b2- ↓ كُدُّونِى فَإِنِّى مُكِدٌّ (tropical:) Ask ye of me; for I give [only] when asked. Said by Ibn-Hubeyreh. (A [but in my copy of that work, the first word is written كِدُّونِى.]) -A4- كَدَّ, [aor. .] (tropical:) He scratched, or scraped: (L:) he scraped off a soil from a garment: (TA:) he scratched perseveringly his head, and his skin, with his nails. (A.) ― -b2- كَدَّ, (TA,) [aor. ,] inf. n. كَدٌّ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) He combed his head. (K, TA.) ― -b3- كَدَّ, [aor. ,] (tropical:) He (a beast) trod the ground with his hoofs. (A, * L.) -A5- كدّهُ, (aor. , L,) He pulled or drew it out (i. e. a solid or a fluid thing) with his hand; as also ↓ اكتدّهُ. (L, K.) -
كدّد Form II He (a man) threw coarsely pounded salt
He (a man) threw coarsely pounded salt (كَدِيد), one portion upon another. (L.) -
اكدّ Form IV He was tenacious, or niggardly
and ↓ اكتدّ (tropical:) He was tenacious, or niggardly. (L, K.) See also مُكِدٌّ. -
إِكْتَدَ3َ Form VIII Open entry
see 1, and 4. -
إِسْتَكْدَ3َ Form X Open entry
see 1. -
كَدْكَدَ He ran slowly
, inf. n. كَدْكَدَةٌ, He ran slowly: (S, IKtt, L:) he affected a heaviness and slowness in his gait. (K.) -
كَدْكَدَ عَلَى الكَدِيدِ He ran upon the dust of the race-course
(assumed tropical:) He ran upon the dust of the race-course. (L.) -
كَدٌّ A mortar in which things are pounded, or bruised
[inf. n. of 1, q. v. ― -b2- as a subst.] A mortar in which things are pounded, or bruised; like هَاوَنٌ, or هَاوُونٌ. (S, K.) -
كِدَّةٌ Open entry
and كُدَّةٌ see كَدِيدٌ. -
كَدُودٌ who toils, or works, laboriously, so as to fatigue himself
A man who toils, or works, laboriously, so as to fatigue himself. (A.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A she-camel whose milk is not obtained without labour, or exertion. (A.) بِيأْرٌ كَدُودٌ (tropical:) A well of which the water is not obtained without labour, or exertion, (S, A, L, K,) and difficulty, or trouble. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Tenacious; niggardly: (K, but omitted in some copies:) one from whom benefits are not obtained without difficulty. (A.) -
أَرْضٌ كَدِيدٌ Ground trodden with the hoofs of horses or the like
(tropical:) Ground trodden with the hoofs of horses or the like. (S, * A, * L.) ― -b2- كَدِيدٌ (tropical:) Fine dust, trodden with the feet: fine dust, which, if trodden, flies about: (L:) dust of a racecourse. (TA.) ― -b3- Coarsely pounded salt. (L, K.) [Also,] The sound of coarsely pounded salt when it is poured out, (L, K,) one portion upon another. (L.) -A2- A low, or depressed, tract of land, (بَطْنٌ, K, or بطين, L, as from A'Obeyd,) of wide extent, (L, K,) formed like a valley, or wider than a valley. (A'Obeyd, L.) ― -b2- A rugged tract of land; (L, K;) as also ↓ كِدَّةٌ, with kesr, (K,) or ↓ كُدَّةٌ; (L;) so called because it fatigues him who walks upon it. (L.) -
كُدَادَةٌ cooked food which remains in the bottom of the cooking-pot, and which is drawn out
The cooked food which remains in the bottom of the cooking-pot, and which is drawn out (كُدَّ) with the fingers: (Az, L:) what remains in the bottom of the cooking-pot, (As, L, K,) sticking to it, after the ladling out; (L;) as also كَدَدَةٌ (L, K) and كُدَدَةٌ: (K:) or the broth, or gravy, remaining in the bottom of the cooking-pot. (S.) ― -b2- Also I. q. قِشْدَةٌ, (S, L, K,) [i. e.] the dregs, or sediment, of clarified butter. (L.) ― -b3- A little that remains of pasture, or herbage. (L.) See also أَكِدَّةٌ. -
كَدْكَدَةٌ the sound made by a thing that is struck upon a hard thing
a word imitative of the sound made by a thing that is struck upon a hard thing. (S, L.) -
اكِدَّةٌ remains in a place of pasture which has already been eaten
The remains in a place of pasture which has already been eaten. (K.) See also كُدَادَةٌ and أَكْدَادٌ. -
قَوْمٌ أَكْدَادٌ A quick, or swift, people
A quick, or swift, people: (As, S, L:) or a people composing distinct bodies, or parties, or troops; (L, art. كتد; and K;) as also ↓ أَكِدَّةٌ and أَكَادِيدُ. (K.) See also أَكْتَادٌ. -
مَكْدُودٌ overcome
pass. part. n. of كَدَّ, q. v. ― -b2- A man overcome. (L.) -
مُكِدٌّ One who gives
(tropical:) One who gives [only] when asked. (A.) See also كَدُودٌ, and 1, and 4. -
مِكَدٌّ A comb
(assumed tropical:) A comb. (K.) ― -b2- (tropical:) An instrument for scratching or scraping. (TA.)
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