غدر

غَدْرٌ / غَدْرَةٌ

Perfidy, faithlessness, or treachery; an act of breaking a compact, covenant, or other obligation.

The verbal construction غَدَرَ بِهِ means to act treacherously toward someone or to fail to fulfill an agreement; غَدْرَةٌ denotes an individual act of perfidy.

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غَدَرَ

To drink the water of a غَدِيرٌ, a pool left by a torrent.

A distinct Form I verbal usage, with the vowel pattern and derivation discussed in the lexical evidence.

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غَدِرَ

To remain or lag behind; to fail to come up with one's companions or herd.

Used with عن for remaining behind people or animals; it can also describe someone who remains after the death of his brothers.

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غَدِرَ / لَيْلَةٌ غَدِرَةٌ / غَدْرَاءُ

To become dark; darkness or a dark, intensely dark night.

The night may be described as so dark that people remain in their dwellings or places of shelter.

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غَدِرَتِ الغَنَمُ

Of sheep or goats, to become satiated in the pasture during the first growth of vegetation.

A lexical use specifically reported of grazing sheep or goats.

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غَدَرٌ

Rugged, stony, or otherwise difficult terrain, including water-eroded hollows, burrows, banks, and uneven ground that obstruct passage or conceal what is in it.

The noun can describe land abounding in such formations. In the Form II construction غَدَّرَ, people or animals are cast into terrain of this kind; the same expression may be extended to anything that conceals or obstructs sight.

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غَدَرٌ / غُدْرَةٌ

A portion left over: a remnant, remainder, residue, or relic of something.

Applications include the blood, fluid, and other remains left in an animal's womb after giving birth, and slime left in a river or rivulet after the water has receded.

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ثَبْتُ الغَدَرِ

Firmness in a difficult or precarious situation; steadfastness in speech, disputation, combat, or an undertaking.

A conventional expression originally describing steadiness while traversing difficult ground, then applied figuratively to a person's reliable speech, argument, or conduct.

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أَغْدَرَ

To leave behind or leave remaining.

A Form IV usage, including leaving an animal behind or leaving something remaining in a person's heart.

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اِسْتَغْدَرَ

Of a place, to contain pools of water left by a torrent; for such pools to form there.

A Form X usage describing residual pools or their formation in a particular place.

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غَادِرٌ / غُدَرُ / غَدَّارٌ

A perfidious, faithless, or treacherous person; an intensive epithet for one characterized by treachery.

The intensified forms are also used vocatively as terms of reproach and may be applied to a person without restricting the usage to one gender.

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سِنُونَ

Years with abundant rain but little herbage, which raise hopes of pasture and then fail to fulfill them.

A figurative extension from the idea of acting faithlessly or failing to keep a promise.

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غَدِرَةٌ

Land that does not produce herbage abundantly, or that produces growth and then soon becomes blighted.

A figurative description likening the land's failure to the unfaithfulness of a treacherous person.

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غَدُورٌ

A she-camel that remains or lags behind the other camels.

A lexical noun or epithet for an animal left behind while being driven.

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غَدِيرٌ

A pool or stagnant body of water left by a torrent or formed from rainwater; in an extended usage, a river.

It is ordinarily used as a substantive rather than as an adjective modifying ماءٌ; the defining image is water left behind after a torrent.

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غَدِيرٌ

A piece of herbage.

A tropical extension from the pool or remaining-water sense.

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غَدِيرٌ

A sword.

A tropical usage reported by comparison with the description لُجٌّ.

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غَدِيرٌ

A she-camel left behind by the herder; likewise, a sheep or goat left behind.

A nominal use describing an animal separated from the rest of its herd or flock.

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غَدِيرَةٌ

A hanging lock or plaited tress of hair; a lock falling from the head onto the breast.

The plural is غَدَائِرُ; the evidence particularly describes plaited locks associated with women.

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غَدِيرَةُ الحَائِكِ

The hollow in the ground in which a weaver places his legs or feet.

A specialized occupational term, also called الوَهْدَةُ.

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