قَدِيدِيُّونَ

Root: قد

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قَدِيدِيُّونَ , thus accord. as a trad., in which it occurs is related, not to be pronounced with damm, or, as some say, it is [قُدَيْدِيُّونَ, i. e.] with damm to the ق and fet-h to the [first] د, and thus in the handwriting of Z in the “ Fáïk, ” [and thus I find it in a copy of the A,] The followers of an army, consisting of handicraftsmen, such as the repairer of cracked wooden bowls, and the farrier, and the blacksmith: of the dial. of the people of Syria: as though they were called by the former appellation because of the tattered state of their clothing; or by the latter as though, by reason of their low condition, they wore the small مِسْح called قُدَيْد; or from التَّقَدُّدُ, because they disperse themselves in the provinces on account of need, and because of the tattered state of their clothing; and the diminutive form denotes mean estimation of their condition: a man of them is reviled by its being said to him يَا قَدِيدىُّ and يا قُدَيْدِىُّ: and it is commonly used in the language of the Persians also.

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