مَنْدُوبٌ
Root: ندب
Full Definition
مَنْدُوبٌ
One sent to do a thing; a messenger; an envoy; an ambassador.
2 فُلَانٌ مَنْدُوبٌ لِأَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ, and مُنَدَّبٌ لَهُ, Such a one is sent to do a great thing; or to perform an important affair.
3 an appellation, given by the people of Mekkeh to their Envoys, or ambassadors, to the palace of the Khaleefeh.
4 مَنْدُوبٌ Desired; sought; sought after; as the name of a certain horse it is thus explained: from نَدَبٌ, as signifying “ a pledge that is given on the occasion of a race. ”
5 مَنْدُوبٌ: see نَدَبَ الميّت: A thing bewailed, [or complained of as painful,] with the exclamation of يَا or وَا. O! or Alas! [The name of the thing thus bewailed, or complained of, has always an ا of prolongation and ه annexed to it, or the ا only.]
6 مَنْدُوبٌ, originally مَنْدُوبٌ إِلَيْهِ, A thing to the performance of which one is called, summoned, or invited: [hence,] approved: a signification verified by the doctors of practical law: a thing the doing of which is more excellent than the leaving it undone, in the eye of the prescriber of the law, but which it is allowable to leave undone. [Freytag, in quoting the original words, omits فِعْلُهُ before راجحًا.]
2 فُلَانٌ مَنْدُوبٌ لِأَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ, and مُنَدَّبٌ لَهُ, Such a one is sent to do a great thing; or to perform an important affair.
3 an appellation, given by the people of Mekkeh to their Envoys, or ambassadors, to the palace of the Khaleefeh.
4 مَنْدُوبٌ Desired; sought; sought after; as the name of a certain horse it is thus explained: from نَدَبٌ, as signifying “ a pledge that is given on the occasion of a race. ”
5 مَنْدُوبٌ: see نَدَبَ الميّت: A thing bewailed, [or complained of as painful,] with the exclamation of يَا or وَا. O! or Alas! [The name of the thing thus bewailed, or complained of, has always an ا of prolongation and ه annexed to it, or the ا only.]
6 مَنْدُوبٌ, originally مَنْدُوبٌ إِلَيْهِ, A thing to the performance of which one is called, summoned, or invited: [hence,] approved: a signification verified by the doctors of practical law: a thing the doing of which is more excellent than the leaving it undone, in the eye of the prescriber of the law, but which it is allowable to leave undone. [Freytag, in quoting the original words, omits فِعْلُهُ before راجحًا.]
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