عضد

عَضَدَ

To hit or hurt someone’s upper arm.

A Form I verb governing a person as its object.

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عَضَدَ

To aid or assist someone.

A conventional figurative use of the verb derived from the arm as a means of strength; distinct from the bodily action of striking the arm.

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عَضَدَ

Of a male camel: to seize a female camel by the upper arm and throw her down for mating.

A specialized camel-related use.

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عَضَدَ

To bind or attach a thong, amulet, or similar object upon the upper arm.

The object is attached to the عَضُد.

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عَضَدَ

To walk alongside a beast, keeping to its right or left side.

Used of accompanying a riding or working animal without leaving its side.

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عَضَدَ

To approach riding camels or other beasts from the surrounding tracts and gather them together.

The gathering is performed from the sides or surrounding areas of the animals.

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عَضَدَ

To cut or lop trees, including cutting off foliage or branches for animals.

The action may be performed with a مِعْضَد or similar cutting implement.

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عَضَدَهُ القَتَبُ

Of a saddle: to gall or wound a camel.

The saddle or its fitting is the agent of the injury.

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عُضِدَ

To suffer an ailment in the upper arm.

A passive or stative bodily construction, also extended in the source to analogous complaints in other body parts.

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عَضِدَ

Of a camel: to suffer the disease called عَضَدٌ.

The disease is described in the lexical evidence chiefly in connection with camels.

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أَعْضَدَ

Of rain moisture: to reach or penetrate to the measure of the upper arm.

A Form IV usage describing the depth reached by moisture.

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أَعْضَدَ

Of an arrow or other missile: to go to the right or left of the target or butt.

A specialized Form IV use describing a shot that veers aside or falls beside the mark.

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تَعَاضَدُوا

They aided or assisted one another.

A reciprocal Form VI construction.

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اعْتَضَدَهُ

To put or place a thing upon or under one’s upper arm.

The construction is synonymous with placing or holding something under the arm.

• Lane · entry 3582

اعْتَضَدَ

To become strong or to strengthen oneself.

A figurative Form VIII use derived from the arm as a means of strength.

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اعْتَضَدَ بِهِ

To ask, seek, or desire aid or assistance from someone.

The person sought is construed with بِهِ.

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اسْتَعْضَدَ

To gather fruit by cutting it off from a tree.

The action includes both severing the fruit and collecting it for eating.

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عَضُد

In an idiom about fatness, the upper arm may stand for the whole body.

The expression is based on the upper arm’s fatness being taken as an indication of general bodily fatness.

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عَضُد

A side, lateral part, adjacent quarter, or surrounding tract.

Applied to the side of an armpit, road, house, object, or region, and to the tracts surrounding riding animals; it can also denote the direction from which wind blows.

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عَضُد

A raised side, enclosing border, or retaining structure around a tank, watering-trough, road, or irrigated plot.

Often used of the stones or ridges that confine water or mark the sides of a built or cultivated area.

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عَضُد

A row of palm trees.

A specialized nominal use, also reported for a row situated along a watercourse.

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عَضُدَا النَّعْلِ

The two branches or attachments of a sandal strap that lie over the foot.

Used in the dual for the paired sandal parts.

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عَضُدَا الرَّحْلِ

The two wooden side pieces attached to the front part of a camel saddle.

A specialized saddle-making term for paired structural pieces.

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عَضِدٌ

Afflicted with a complaint or ailment of the upper arm.

An adjectival description of a person or animal; the lexical evidence also applies it to a camel with the disease عَضَدٌ.

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عَضِدٌ

Of a camel: afflicted with the disease called عَضَدٌ.

An adjectival specialization of the camel-disease terminology.

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عَضِدٌ

One who has drawn near to the two sides of a watering-trough or tank.

A descriptive use based on approaching the sides of the watering place.

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عَضِدٌ

A male wild ass that gathers the she-asses from their different quarters.

A specialized zoological description of the animal’s gathering behavior.

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عَضِدٌ

Having a short upper arm.

Applied to a person or an arm whose portion between elbow and shoulder is short.

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عَضَادٌ

Short, compact, and moderately proportioned in build, especially with thick or short upper arms.

Reported of women, men, and young men; the source varies the associated forms by gender and usage.

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عَضَادٌ

Of a she-camel: one that stays apart and does not approach the watering-trough until it is unoccupied.

A specialized description of a camel that separates itself from the herd at the watering place.

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عِضَادٌ

A crosswise hot-iron brand placed on a camel’s upper arm.

The noun denotes the mark itself.

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عِضَادَةٌ

One of a pair of side pieces or posts of a door, buckle, bit, or yoke.

Used for paired structural parts positioned on the right and left or at the sides of the object.

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عِضَادَةٌ

A close attendant or constant companion who does not leave another’s side.

A figurative use derived from the idea of a supporting side piece or close adjacency.

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عُضَادِيٌّ

Large in the upper arms.

An adjectival description of a person’s physical build.

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عَاضِدٌ

Of a male camel: one that seizes a female camel by the upper arm and makes her lie down for mating.

An active-participial form of the specialized camel usage.

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عَاضِدٌ

One who walks alongside a beast on its right or left.

An active-participial description of an animal attendant or driver.

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عَاضِدٌ

An arrow that falls to the right or left of the target or butt.

A specialized nominal use for a shot that misses laterally.

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عَاضِدَانِ

Two rows of palm trees growing along the sides of a river or rivulet.

The dual denotes the two bordering rows; the plural may denote palms growing along watercourse sides.

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عَاضِدٌ

A cutter or lopper of trees.

An active-participial noun for a person who cuts or lops trees.

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أَعْضَدُ

Slender in the upper arm, or having one upper arm shorter than the other.

A physical descriptor of asymmetry or lack of flesh in the upper arm.

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مِعْضَدٌ

An amulet, armlet, or bracelet worn or bound upon the upper arm.

The same implement may be described as a thong-bound amulet or as an ornamental armlet.

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مِعْضَدٌ

A heavy cutting implement, reaping-hook-like tool, or sword used for cutting trees; also a sword used to cut bones.

The tool may draw down branches for animals or be a sword employed for lopping and cutting.

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مِعْضَدَةٌ

A money purse worn or bound upon the upper arm.

A traveller’s arm-bound purse for carrying spending money.

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مُعَضَّدٌ

A garment decorated with figured work, embroidery, or stripes at the sides or around the upper-arm area.

The descriptive use concerns the placement or form of the garment’s ornamentation.

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مُعَضَّدٌ

Of camels: branded on the upper arms with the mark called عِضَاد.

A passive-participial description of animals bearing the specified brand.

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مُعَضَّدٌ

Firmly made or solidly built.

Reported as an epithet describing a person’s physical constitution; the transmitted wording is noted as variant in the lexical evidence.

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مُعَضِّدٌ

Of dates beginning to ripen: ripening on one side.

A specialized description of uneven or one-sided ripening.

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يَعْضِيدٌ

A particular herb or leguminous plant with a yellow blossom and bitter or viscous qualities.

A rare plant name, with variant descriptions of whether it is classed among herbs or small trees.

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