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امتدّ

Root: مد

Form: 8

Full Definition

امتدّVIII , and تمدّد , [or this has an intensive or frequentative signification,] It because drawn, or pulled: it became strained: it became extended by drawing or pulling; it extended itself; it stretched. See also 5.
2 امتدّ It became expanded, or stretched out.
3 It became elongated, or extended, or long.
4 [It became protracted.]
5 امتدّ بِهِمُ السَّيْرُ The journey became long to them.
6 امتدّ It became long.
7 It became extended, or stretched forth.
8 It spread. See 1.
9 امتدّ: and , Verbal.Noun مَدٌّ; It (the day, S, A, L, K, and the period of morning called الضُّحَى, L,) became high; it became advanced, the sun being high: and the former, it shone forth.
10 امتدّ; and , Verbal.Noun مَدّ; said of the shade, It extended].
11 امتدّ إِلَى الإِجَابَةِ إِلَيْهِ [app. He strained himself to give his consent to it.] (K, voce إِنبَاعَ, q. v. in art. بوع.)
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