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أَدَاةٌ

Root: ادو

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أَدَاةٌ An instrument; a tool; an implement; a utensil: and instruments; tools; implements; utensils; apparatus; equipments; equipage; accoutrements; furniture; gear; tackling: syn. آلَةٌ: of any tradesman or craftsman; with which he performs the work of his trade or craft: and of war; أَدَاةُ الحَرْبِ signifying weapons, or arms: and for an affair [of any kind]: [applied also to the apparatus of a camel, or of a camel's saddle, &c.: (see حِدْجٌ:)] and إِدَاوَةٌ signifies the same; and أَدَاوَةٌ : and أَدِىٌّ , like غَنِىٌّ, [in some copies of the S آدِىٌّ,] signifies apparatus, equipments, equipage, accoutrements, furniture, gear, tackling, implements, tools, or the like; syn. أُهْبَةٌ: the pl. of أَدَاهٌ is أَدَوَاتٌ. You say, أَخَذَ أَدَاتَهُ [He took his apparatus, &c.; or prepared, furnished, equipped, or accoutred, himself]; لِلْأَمْرِ [for the affair], and لِلسَّفَرِ [for journeying, or the journey], and لِلدَّهْرِ [for the vicissitudes of fortune]: and it is related on the authority of Ks, that they said أَخَذَ هَدَاتَهُ; substituting ه for أ. . And الأَمْر أخَذْتُ لِذٰلِكَ i. e. أُهْبَتَهُ [I took for that affair its apparatus, &c.]. And نَحْنُ عَلَى لِلصَّلَاةِ We are in a state of preparation for prayer.
2 [Hence, in grammar, A particle; as being a kind of auxiliary; including the article ال, the preposition, the conjunction, and the interjection; but not the adverbial noun.]
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