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اوفدهُ

Root: وفد

Form: 4

Full Definition

اوفدهُIV , and إِلَيْهِ, Verbal.Noun إِيفَادٌ; and وفّدهُ إِلَيْهِ, Verbal.Noun تَوْفِيدٌ; He sent him to him, namely, to a king, or governor, [or great man, as an ambassador, envoy, or messenger; or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: see 1].
2 الأَمِيرُ إِلَى الأَمِيرِ الَّذِى وفّدهُ فَوْتَهُ [The governor, sent him as an envoy to the governor who was above him].
3 مَا أَوْفَدَكَ عَلَيْنَا [What hath caused thee to come to us?].
4 بَيْنَمَا أَنَا فِىضِيقٍ إِذْ أَوْفَدَ ٱللّٰهُ عَلَىَّ بِرَجُلٍ فَأَخْرَجَنِى مَنْهُ While I was in difficulty, lo, God brought to me a man, and extricated me from it.

def.2 اوفد عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, Verbal.Noun إِيفَادٌ, It rose up, or stood up, so as to be higher than the thing; overtopped it; overpeered it; overhung it; overlooked it. A poet says, تَرَى العِلَافِىَّ عَلَيْهَا مُوفِدَا كَأَنَّ بَرْجًا فَوْقَهَا مُشَيَّدَا [Thou seest the 'Iláfee saddle overtopping her, as though a high-raised tower were upon her.] And one says of a horse, مَا أَحْسَنَ مَا أَوْفَدَ حَاركُهُ How beautiful is the prominence of his withers! توفّد is also syn. with اوفد in the above sense.
2 اوفد Verbal.Noun إِيفَادٌ, It raised its head and erected its ears.
3 اوفد, Verbal.Noun إِيفَادٌ, He hastened, or went, quickly: occurring in the poetry of Ibn-Ahmar.
4 اوفد, Verbal.Noun إِيفَادٌ, It rose, or became elevated.
5 اوفد, He raised, or elevated, a thing.


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