عَقْدٌ
Root: عقد
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عَقْدٌ
[as an Verbal.Noun: see 1.
2 See also أُخْذَةٌ, which is syn. with the Verbal.Noun تَأْخِيذٌ.
3 As a simple subst.,] see عُقْدَةٌ, third sentence.
4 Also A contract, a compact, a covenant, an agreement, a league, a treaty, or an engagement: pl. عُقُودٌ. Agreeably with this explanation, the pl. is used in the Kur v. 1, as meaning Contracts, &c.: or it there means the obligatory statutes, or ordinances, of God: or, accord. to Zj, the covenants imposed by God, and those imposed mutually by men agreeably with the
5 Also Responsibility, accountableness, or suretiship; syn. ضَمَانٌ.
6 See also مَعْقُودٌ.
7 Also An arch; [and a vault;] a structure that is curved in like manner as are [in many instances] doorways: pl. عُقُودٌ and أَعْقَادٌ [a pl. of pauc.]. [Hence,] أَعْقَادُ السَّحَابِ The arches of the clouds: sing. عَقْدٌ.
8 Applied to a he-camel, it means Having the back firmly compacted: and so القَرَا applied to a she-camel.
9 [And A decimal number; of those numbers of which the first is ten and the last is ninety: (I have not found any satisfactory authority for the orthography of the word in this sense; and have therefore followed the general usage, in mentioning it as عَقْدٌ: in the MA, it is written عِقْدٌ, as from only one MS.; and Freytag has mentioned its pl. under عِقْدٌ; which I hold to be wrong:) the pl. is عُقُودٌ: thus in the A and K in art. عشر, it is said that العَشَرَةُ is the first of the عُقُود.]
2 See also أُخْذَةٌ, which is syn. with the Verbal.Noun تَأْخِيذٌ.
3 As a simple subst.,] see عُقْدَةٌ, third sentence.
4 Also A contract, a compact, a covenant, an agreement, a league, a treaty, or an engagement: pl. عُقُودٌ. Agreeably with this explanation, the pl. is used in the Kur v. 1, as meaning Contracts, &c.: or it there means the obligatory statutes, or ordinances, of God: or, accord. to Zj, the covenants imposed by God, and those imposed mutually by men agreeably with the
5 Also Responsibility, accountableness, or suretiship; syn. ضَمَانٌ.
6 See also مَعْقُودٌ.
7 Also An arch; [and a vault;] a structure that is curved in like manner as are [in many instances] doorways: pl. عُقُودٌ and أَعْقَادٌ [a pl. of pauc.]. [Hence,] أَعْقَادُ السَّحَابِ The arches of the clouds: sing. عَقْدٌ.
8 Applied to a he-camel, it means Having the back firmly compacted: and so القَرَا applied to a she-camel.
9 [And A decimal number; of those numbers of which the first is ten and the last is ninety: (I have not found any satisfactory authority for the orthography of the word in this sense; and have therefore followed the general usage, in mentioning it as عَقْدٌ: in the MA, it is written عِقْدٌ, as from only one MS.; and Freytag has mentioned its pl. under عِقْدٌ; which I hold to be wrong:) the pl. is عُقُودٌ: thus in the A and K in art. عشر, it is said that العَشَرَةُ is the first of the عُقُود.]
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