استدام

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استدامX : see 1.
2 And see also 2.
3 And اُسْتُدِيمَ: see 1, last sentence but one.

def.2 As a trans. v., i. q. اِنْتَظَرَ, as also تدوّم , and رَقَبَ, or تَرَقَّبَ: you say, اِسْتَدِمْ كَذَا, meaning اِنْتَظِرْهُ and اُرْقُبْهُ [Look thou for, expect, await, wait for, or watch for, such a thing.] [When no objective complement is expressed, it seems to mean He paused, and acted with deliberation, or in a patient or leisurely manner, or he waited in expectation; app. from the same verb as syn. with دَوَّمَ; and thus, like one who hovers about a thing: see حَوَّمَ; and see also اِنْتَظَرَ.] And استدامهُ He acted with moderation, gently, deliberately, or leisurely, in it; namely, an affair, or a case: or he sought, desired, asked, or demanded, its continuance, or long continuance, or endless continuance: and so in both of these senses: or he asked him to render a thing continual &c.: and also he acted gently and deliberately in it; namely, an affair, or a case: and he acted gently with him; (Fr, T in art. ديم, M, Msb, Kt;) i. e., another person, or his creditor; as also اِسْتَدْمَاهُ, which we judge to be formed from the former by transposition, because we do not find it [in this sense] to have any Verbal.Noun A poet says, namely, Keys Ibn-Zuheyr, فَلَا تَعْجَلْ بِأَمْرِكَ وَٱسْتَدِمْهُ فَمَا صَلَّى عَصَاكَ i. e. [Therefore haste not in thine affair, but act with moderation, gently, deliberately, or leisurely, therein]; for no one has straightened thy staff by turning it round over the fire, meaning, no one has managed thine affair soundly, like one who acts with moderation, &c. And another says, namely, Mejnoon, وَإِنَّى عَلَى لَيْلَى لَزَارٍ وَإِنَّنِى عَلَىذَاكَ فِيمَا بَيْنَنَا أَسْتَدِيمُهَا meaning [And verily I am blaming Leylà; and verily, notwithstanding that,] I look for her aiding me by good conduct [in the matter that is between us]. You say also, أَسْتَدِيمُ ٱللّٰهَ نِعْمَتَكَ I seek, or desire, or ask, of God the continuance, or long continuance, or endless continuance, of thy favour, or the like. And أَسْتَدِيمُ ٱللّٰهَ عِزَّكَ I ask God to continue, or continue long, &c., thy might, or power, &c. The phrase استدام لُبْسَ الثَّوْبِ, meaning [He continued long the wearing of the garment, or] he did not hasten to pull off the garment, may be from the saying اِسْتَدَمْتُ عَاقِبَةَ الأَمْرِ, meaning I looked, or watched, or waited, for the end, or issue, or result, of the affair, or case.

def.3 Also He stooped his head, blood dropping from it: formed by transposition from اِسْتَدْمَى

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