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ادارهُ

Root: دور

Form: 4

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ادارهُIV , and دوّرهُ , and دَارَ بِهِ, and دوّر بِهِ, and اَدَارَ بِهِ, and استدار , He, or it, made, or caused, him, or it, to go, move, or turn, round; to circle; to revolve; to return to the place from which he, or it, began to move. You say, أَدَارَ العِمَامَةَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ [He wound the turban round upon his head]. And ادار الزَّعْفَرَانَ فِى المَآءِ [He stirred round the saffron in the water, in dissolving it]. (A and TA in art. دوم.) And بِهِ دَوَائِرُ الزَّمَانِ [The revolutions of fortune, or time, made him to turn round from one state, or condition, to another]. And بِهِ, and أُدِيرَ بِهِ, and عَلَيْهِ [the first and second lit. signifying He was made to turn round; by which, as by the third also, is meant] he became affected by a vertigo, or giddiness in the head.
2 ادارهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ He endeavoured [to turn him to the thing, i. e.] to induce him to do the thing: and ادارهُ عَنْهُ he endeavoured [to turn him from it, i. e.] to induce him to leave, or relinquish, it; or i. q. لَاوَصَهُ; as also , q. v.
3 إِدَارَةٌ [the Verbal.Noun] also signifies The giving and taking, from hand to hand, without delay: and agreeably with this explanation is rendered the phrase in the Kur [ii. 282], لِجَارَةٌ حَاضِرَةٌ تُدِيرُونَهَا بَيْنَكُمْ Ready merchandise, which ye give and take among yourselves, from hand to hand, without delay; i. e., not on credit].
4 See also 1:
5 and 2, in two places.
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