كَادَهُ
Root: كيد
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 كَادَ, Present.T يَكِيدُ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ and مَكِيدَةٌ, [or the latter is a simple subst.,] He acted deceitfully, mischievously, or wickedly.
3 Also, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, He practised an evasion or elusion, a shift, a wile, an artifice, or artful contrivance or device, a plot, a stratagem, or an expedient; or he exercised art, artifice, cunning, ingenuity, or skill, in the management or ordering of affairs,, with excellent consideration or deliberation, and ability to manage with subtilty according to his own free will; syn. اِخْتَالَ; and of the Verbal.Noun, حِيلَةٌ.
4 كَادَهُ He taught him الكَيْد [i. e., to deceive, beguile, or circumvent, &c., or, to act deceitfully, mischievously, or wickedly; or, to practise modes, or means, of evading or cluding, &c.]. So some explain it in the Kur xii. 76.
5 It is said in a trad., مَا قَوْلُكَ فِى عُقُولٍ كَادَهَا خَالِقُهَا What sayest thou of intellects to which their Creator hath desired to do evil? So some explain the verb in the Kur xxi. 58.
6 يَكِيدُونَ كَيْدًا وَأَكِيدُ كَيْدًا [Kur lxxxvi. 16, They practise an artful device, and I will practise an artful device]. كَيْدُ ٱللّٰهِ لِلْكُفَّارِ [God's practising an artful device towards the unbelievers] means his taking them unawares, so that they do not reckon upon it; bestowing upon them enjoyments in which they delight, and on which they place their reliance, and with which they become familiar so as not to be mindful of death, and then taking them in their most heedless state; إِسْتِدْرَاجُهُمْ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ.
7 كَادَ, Present.T يَكِيدُ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, He contrived, devised, or plotted, a thing, whether wrong or right. Ex. فُلَانٌ يَكِيدُ أَمْرً مَا أَدْرِى مَا هُوَ Such a one contrives, devises, or plots, a thing: I know not what it is.
8 كَادَ, Present.T يَكِيدُ, He worked, or laboured, at, or upon, anything; he laboured, took pains, applied himself vigorously, exerted himself, strove, or struggled, to do, execute, or perform, or to effect, or accomplish, or to manage, or treat, anything; he laboured, strove, or struggled, with anything, to prevail, or overcome, or to effect an object; syn. عَالَجَ.
9 كَادَ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, He strove, or laboured; exerted himself, or his power or ability; employed himself vigorously, laboriously, sedulously, or earnestly; was diligent; took extraordinary pains.
def.2 كَادَ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, He exerted himself in his croaking.
def.3 كَادَ بِنَفْسِهِ, Present.T يَكِيدُ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ,
2 كَادَ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, He vomited.
3 كَادَ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, It (a زَنْد) emitted fire.
4 كَادَتْ, Present.T تَكِيدُ, Verbal.Noun كَيْدٌ, She had the menstrual flux.
def.4 لَا أَفْعَلُ ذٰلِكَ وَلَا كَيْدًا وَلَا هَمًّا I will not do that, nor do I desire, nor do I purpose, or intend. See كَادَ in art. كود.
def.5 كَادَ يَفْعَلُ كَذَا, originally كَيِدَ, first pers. كِدْتُ, Present.T يَكَادُ; and كِيدَ: see art. كود. [It is mentioned in arts. كود and كيد in the L, K: in the former only in the S: and in the latter only in the Msb.]
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