عقد

عَقَدَ

To tie, knot, fasten, or make firm, especially a cord or rope.

The basic physical action is contrasted with loosening and may also be applied to tying a banner.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To arrange beard or hair into knots or curls.

A conventional grooming or war-related use.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To exert and prepare oneself for action.

A figurative use based on tying or securing a rope.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ نَاصِيَتَهُ

To become angry and prepare to do mischief.

An idiomatic expression literally referring to knotting the forelock.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ عُنُقَهُ إِلَيْهِ

To have recourse to someone for refuge or protection.

An idiomatic, figurative construction.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To count or reckon by bending and extending the fingers.

The object may be the calculation itself or the fingers used in counting.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To close or cling fast during sexual coupling.

A specialized physiological or sexual construction.

• Lane · entry 4054

عُقِدَتِ السِّبَاعُ

To be restrained from attacking by means of charms or talismans.

A figurative or magical usage reported in traditional expression.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ التَّاجَ

To put a crown upon the head.

A conventional construction with the crown as object.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ البِنَاءَ

To arch or vault a building, and to cement it with gypsum.

A constructional use referring to forming or securing an arched structure.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ الثَّمَرَ

For a plant to form and compact its fruit.

Used of fruit developing into a compact formation.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To produce or form fat and flesh; for fat to become formed and compact.

Used of pasture in relation to the fat or flesh produced by grazing animals, and of fat itself.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To thicken or become inspissated.

Used of liquids such as rob, tar, honey, and date juice, commonly through boiling.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ بَطْنُهُ

For the belly to become constipated.

A bodily resultative use.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقِدَ

To have an impediment in the tongue; to be tongue-tied.

The impediment may make free speech difficult.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقِدَ

For sand to become moistened and cohere.

A resultative use describing sand after heavy rain.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ

To impose an obligation or require an undertaking or security.

Used with an object such as a tax, obligation, engagement, or security.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَدَ قَلْبَهُ عَلَى

To settle or determine the heart or mind firmly upon something.

A figurative binding of one's resolve or adherence.

• Lane · entry 4054

عَقَّدَ

To tie many things into knots, especially forelocks or mane hair.

The Form II conveys repeated or multiple knotting in the cited construction.

• Lane · entry 4055

عَقَّدَ

To make speech or language obscure.

A figurative Form II use, as though the speech had been made knotty.

• Lane · entry 4055

عَاقَدَ

To unite with another in a contract, covenant, compact, treaty, or engagement.

The construction takes the other party as its object and concerns mutual agreement.

• Lane · entry 4056

أَعْقَدَ

To thicken or cause a liquid to become inspissated.

Used of rob, tar, honey, and similar substances by boiling.

• Lane · entry 4057

تَعَقَّدَ

To become gathered into an arched or constructed form.

Used of a rainbow resembling an arch and of a collection of clouds.

• Lane · entry 4058

تَعَقَّدَ

For the inner casing of a well to project below while the upper part recedes.

A technical description of the structure of a well.

• Lane · entry 4058

تَعَقَّدَ

To accumulate, congest, or become compacted into lumps.

Used of sand and moist earth.

• Lane · entry 4058

تَعَقَّدَتِ القَرْحَةُ

For a wound or ulcer to form into a knot or lump.

A resultative medical use.

• Lane · entry 4058

تَعَاقَدَ

To enter jointly into a contract, covenant, treaty, or engagement.

The reciprocal Form VI describes parties agreeing among themselves.

• Lane · entry 4059

تَعَاقَدَتِ الكِلَابُ

For animals to become locked together in sexual coupling.

A specialized reciprocal construction used of dogs.

• Lane · entry 4059

اِنْعَقَدَ

For a cord or rope to become tied, knotted, or firmly fastened.

The intransitive Form VII describes the resulting state.

• Lane · entry 4060

اِنْعَقَدَ

For a sale, marriage, contract, or compact to be concluded, settled, or ratified.

Used of an agreement becoming effective or established.

• Lane · entry 4060

اِنْعَقَدَ

For an animal's tail to become twisted.

A physical resultative use.

• Lane · entry 4060

اِنْعَقَدَ

For hair to become knotted, crisp, or curly.

Used of hair acquiring a compact or twisted form.

• Lane · entry 4060

اِنْعَقَدَ

For dates or other fruit to become organized and compact.

A resultative botanical use.

• Lane · entry 4060

اِعْتَقَدَ

To hold something firmly in the heart or mind; to believe or be certain of it.

Especially used of religious doctrines and firmly held convictions.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ

To acquire, buy, or collect property or an estate.

The acquired property may consist of land, houses, or other assets.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ أَخًا

To adopt someone as a brother in God.

A conventional social or religious relationship.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ

To make pearls, beads, or similar items into a necklace.

A causative arrangement of separate items into a connected string.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ

For a date-stone or other thing to become hard.

A resultative use describing hardening.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ

For fraternity or a bond between people to become true, sincere, and firmly established.

Used of a relationship becoming securely grounded.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِعْتَقَدَ

To shut or lock a door upon oneself in order to die.

A rare, attributed lexical usage with a variant reported by other authorities.

• Lane · entry 4061

اِسْتَعْقَدَ

For a female animal to desire the male.

A specialized Form X use reported of a sow.

• Lane · entry 4062

عَقْدٌ

Responsibility, accountability, or suretiship.

A nominal extension of binding obligation; synonymous with ضَمَانٌ.

• Lane · entry 4063

عَقْدٌ

An arch, vault, or curved architectural structure.

The plural may denote arches or vaulted structures.

• Lane · entry 4063

عَقْدٌ

A decimal number from ten through ninety.

A technical numerical use; the plural is عُقُودٌ.

• Lane · entry 4063

عِقْدٌ

A necklace or string on which beads are strung.

A nominal object worn around the neck, including a necklace for a child.

• Lane · entry 4064

عَقَدٌ

A twist or knot-like formation in an animal's tail or horn.

Used of the tail of a sheep or goat and the horn of a he-goat.

• Lane · entry 4065

عَقَدٌ

Canker, corrosion, decay, or blackness in a tooth.

A specialized dental term.

• Lane · entry 4065

عَقِدٌ

Compact, accumulated, or clumped earth or sand.

Used of moist earth and of sand that has accumulated or congested.

• Lane · entry 4066
• Lane · entry 4068
• Lane · entry 4069

عَقِدٌ

A meadow whose herbage is continuous or uninterrupted.

A descriptive epithet for dense, continuous vegetation.

• Lane · entry 4066

عَقِدٌ

Short, strong, and enduring in labor, when applied to a camel.

An adjectival use describing the camel's build or endurance.

• Lane · entry 4066

عَقِدَةٌ

A tree or wooded growth that provides sufficient sustenance or pasture.

Also applied to a place rich in trees or palms and useful as grazing.

• Lane · entry 4066
• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

The star called a Piscium.

A specialized astronomical name explained through the idea of a knot or junction.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A figurative knot whose loosening denotes the calming of anger.

In the idiom تحلّلت عقده, the knots are metaphorical.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

Judgment, deliberation, or competence in managing affairs.

Used idiomatically of strength or weakness in a person's judgment and administration.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A ratified pledge of obedience or allegiance, and by extension a governorship or prefecture.

Used of authority or office established through a binding pledge.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A node, joint, articulation, or uneven juncture of a bone or finger.

Includes a protuberant or irregularly set bone and the joints or phalanges of the fingers.

• Lane · entry 4067
• Lane · entry 4077

عُقْدَةٌ

A knot or node in a cane, tree, horn, or mountain structure.

Used of a structural point or knot-like formation in various natural objects.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A plant node, bud, or compact roundish fruiting body.

The plant node is the point from which a leaf emerges; the term also covers certain compact plant growths.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A node or intersection of a planet's path.

Used in the dual expression for the two planetary nodes.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A small nodular lump, ganglion, gland, or knob.

A general anatomical or physical use for a compact protuberance.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

The enlarged, locked penis of a dog during copulation.

A specialized anatomical term restricted to the stated physiological condition.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

An estate or property consisting of land, houses, palms, or revenue-producing holdings.

The estate is understood as an acquired possession.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

A wooded or herbage-rich place, a garden of palms, or dependable pasture.

The term may denote land, trees, or remaining pasture sufficient for animals.

• Lane · entry 4067

عُقْدَةٌ

Anything on which a person relies and through which he feels established or adequately provided for.

Often realized as sufficient property or an estate.

• Lane · entry 4067

عَقَدَةٌ

The thick root or base of the tongue.

An anatomical noun.

• Lane · entry 4068

عَقَدَانٌ

A species or variety of dates.

A specialized botanical or agricultural noun.

• Lane · entry 4070

عَقِيدٌ

A person united with another in a contract or covenant; a confederate.

Also used figuratively of someone bound by nature to generosity or meanness.

• Lane · entry 4071

عَقِيدٌ

Thick, thickened, or inspissated.

Used adjectivally of rob, honey, and similar substances.

• Lane · entry 4071

عَقِيدَةٌ

A firmly held belief, creed, doctrine, or religious tenet.

The noun denotes what a person holds firmly in the heart or mind, especially without doubt.

• Lane · entry 4072

عَاقِدٌ

A she-camel that has conceived and twists or holds her tail as though tying it.

The bodily sign indicates conception after mating.

• Lane · entry 4054
• Lane · entry 4073

عَاقِدٌ

A gazelle that twists its tail or bends its neck in a characteristic posture.

The term covers several described postures, including lying down or raising the head protectively.

• Lane · entry 4073

عَاقِدٌ

One who twists his neck out of pride.

An idiomatic description of proud bearing.

• Lane · entry 4073

عَاقِدٌ

Thoroughly cooked and reduced food from which the water has gone.

Applied particularly to a cooked preparation called أَقِط.

• Lane · entry 4073

عَاقِدٌ

The protected space or surrounding area of a well.

A technical geographical use referring to the well's ḥarīm and its surroundings.

• Lane · entry 4073

عُنْقُودٌ

A raceme or bunch of grapes, dates, or similar fruit.

A botanical noun for fruit borne together in a cluster.

• Lane · entry 4075

أَعْقَدُ

An animal having a twisted or knot-like tail or a knot in its horn.

Applied to wolves, dogs, rams, sheep, goats, and similar animals; the feminine form is also used.

• Lane · entry 4076

أَعْقَدُ

Tongue-tied or unable to speak freely.

An adjectival counterpart to the verbal description of a speech impediment.

• Lane · entry 4076

أَعْقَدُ

Mean and difficult or stubborn in disposition.

Used in the expression لَئِيمٌ أَعْقَدُ.

• Lane · entry 4076

عَقْدَاءُ

A female slave.

A specialized lexical use of the feminine form.

• Lane · entry 4076

مَعْقِدٌ

The place where something is tied, joined, or knotted; figuratively, a person's near standing or a point where qualities are joined.

Includes the idioms مَعْقِدَ الإِزَارِ and مَعَاقِدِ العِزِّ.

• Lane · entry 4077

مَعْقِدٌ

A joint, articulation, or place of juncture between two bones.

An anatomical use closely related to the notion of a joining point.

• Lane · entry 4077

مُعَقَدٌ

A garment or textile associated with the manufacture of Hجر.

A specialized traditional term recorded in a transmitted expression.

• Lane · entry 4079

مُعَقَدٌ

Tied in many knots or made intricately knotty.

The doubled form marks multiplicity or abundance of knots.

• Lane · entry 4079
• Lane · entry 4080

مُعَقَدٌ

Obscure or rendered difficult to understand.

Applied figuratively to language that has been made knotty or intricate.

• Lane · entry 4079

مُعَقِّدٌ

An enchanter or magician who ties knots as part of sorcery.

The occupational sense derives from the practice of knotting magical cords or threads.

• Lane · entry 4080

مَعْقُودٌ

Tied, knotted, or firmly fastened, especially a cord or rope.

The passive participle describes the resulting secured state.

• Lane · entry 4082

مَعْقُودٌ

Firmly attached or cleaving, as good fortune is said to cleave to horses' forelocks.

A figurative idiom based on something being tied to or inseparable from another.

• Lane · entry 4082

مَعْقُودٌ

A sale, contract, compact, or similar agreement that has been concluded or ratified.

The passive participle is used substantively of an agreement in force.

• Lane · entry 4082

مَعْقُودٌ

A settled or determined opinion or judgment.

In the expression ليس له معقود, the noun denotes an established view.

• Lane · entry 4082

مَعْقُودٌ

Arched, vaulted, or furnished with arches.

Applied to a building or structure.

• Lane · entry 4082

يَمِينٌ مُنْعَقِدَةٌ

An oath binding a person to do or refrain from doing something in the future.

A technical legal expression for a future-oriented binding oath.

• Lane · entry 4085

يَعْقِيدٌ

Honey thickened by fire, or food or wheat thickened with honey.

A specialized culinary noun.

• Lane · entry 4086