Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

اعتدّ

Root: عد

Form: 8

Full Definition

اعتدّVIII It was, or became, numbered, counted, reckoned, or computed. Many of the learned say that انعدّ should not be [thus] used as a quasi-pass. of عَدَّهُ: it is said to be vulgar, or bad.

def.2 اعتدّهُ: see 1, first and last sentences.
2 One says also اعتدّ بِهِ meaning He included it in a numbering, or reckoning. [And hence, He made account of it; accounted it a matter of importance. And لَا يُعْتَدُّ بِهِ No account is made of it, or him; it, or he, is not reckoned, or esteemed, as of any account, or importance: a phrase of frequent occurrence.]

def.3 [He made it ready, prepared it, or provided it:] see 4.
2 See also 10.

def.4 اِعْتَدَّتْ, said of a woman, She observed, or kept, the period of her عِدَّة [q. v.].


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