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قَدَّمَ

Root: قدم

Form: 2

Full Definition

قَدَّمَII He brought Zeyd near, or caused him to draw near, or to approach, to the wall.
2 قَدَّمَهُ He put it forward; offered it; proffered it.
3 He brought, and brought forward, him or it.
4 قَدَّمَ لَهُ طَعَامًا He proffered, offered, or presented to him, food.
5 قَدَّمَ He did good or evil previously, or beforehand: he laid up in store. See زَلَّفَهُ.
6 قَدَّمَ He made foremost; put, brought, or sent, forward; he advanced him or it: he promoted him.
7 قَدَّمَهُ عَلَى غَيَرِهِ, Verbal.Noun تَقْدِيمٌ, He made him, or it, to be before, or have precedence of, another, in time: and in place; i. e. he placed, or put, him, or it, before another; or made him, or it, to precede another: and in rank, or dignity; i. e. he preferred him, or it, before another; or honoured, or esteemed, him, or it, above another.
8 قَدَّمَهُ لِكَذَا He prepared it, or provided it beforehand, for such a thing. See Kur, xii. 48.
9 قَدَّمَ عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ خَيْرًا He prepared, or provided in store, for himself, good, [i. e. a reward,] with God. (A and Mgh in art. حسب.)
10 قدّم لَهُ الثَّمَنَ He paid him in advance, or beforehand, the price.
11 قَدَّمَ أَنْ پَفْعَلَ كَذَا He preferred doing such a thing; syn. آثَرَ, i. e. فَضَّلَ. (M in art. أَثر.) [Hence, قَدَّمَ العَجْزَ فِىالشَّىْءِ He preferred backwardness with respect to the thing.] (See فَرَّطَ and فُرُطٌ: and see Kull, p. 279.)
12 قَدَّمَ syn. with تَقَدَّمَ, q. v.: like as أَخَّرَ is with تَأَخَّرَ: so in the Kur, xli. 1. (TA, art, أخر.)
13 قَدَّمَ [is trans. and intrans.: for its significations as an intrans. v., see its syn. تقدّم, and see 1:] as a trans. v. it is contr. of أَخَّرَ. (Msb, art. أخر.)
14 قَدَّمَ is syn. with بَدَأَ بِهِ. (Mgh and Msb in art. بدأ.)
15 قَدَّمَ إِلَيْهِ فِى كَذَا: see تَقَدَّمَ.
16 See تَأَذَّنَ voce آذَنَ.
17 قَدَّمَ أَوْلَادًا and قَدَّمَتْهُمْ: see أَفْرَطَ.
18 قَدَّمَهُ and He urged him forward.
19 قَدَّمَ has تَقْدِمَةٌ for an Verbal.Noun
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